I’m going to assume that you’re 50+ or are severely lacking in social skills. Probably both.

Text only communication is severely lacking in it’s ability to convey certain things that verbal or in person communication does. Things like tone. This means that conveying that something is said as a joke, or that it’s meant to be sarcastic is not possible in Text form. There have been many kludges to solve this (like /s for example) but by far the most effective has been the addition of emoji.

Emoji definitions come from a shared understanding of their meanings. Just like, y’know, words. (What makes you think people will intuitively know what “ai slop” means? Even if they’ve come across “bad or overused generative ai content”?)

If you pulled your head out of your ass you would see that there are already emoji associated with ai. Companies that use it signal it with ✨️ and users will often signal it with 🤖

Language evolves, and gatekeeping it is futile.

It’s sad that I need to actually explain this.