I was drawn to an article mentioned in @alyshkalia’s weekly IF roundup and also linked above by @DamonWakes. The article is titled Slop comes for everything you love and it’s worth reading.
The essence of the article is that the author had been away from IF for some time and had returned to play the games in IFComp 2025, but was repelled by the use of generative AI in 10% of the games.
I might be reading too much into this, but it sounds like that person will never come back to IF. Is this what the IFTF wants?
The author of that article is not going to fill out any IFComp survey. I, for one, didn’t even know that there was a survey and I’m not going to go looking for it in some obscure area of the internet that I’ve never ventured into.