I think you're reversing causality. Movies that were bound to be bad cast The Rock. We need to experiment by casting The Rock in a Paul Thomas Anderson.
I got piled on recently for using AI. I was clear about it and it wasn't in my opinion "slop". Slop is when you use AI to generate something that should have been created with real human creativity. In this case I asked it to recognize what a widget was in an image. It's a simple matter of fact. The alternative to using AI would be to not know or settle for the other answers from humans, which were wrong.
Attack me for using a calculator next time, why don't you!?
This is kind of a misleading statistic. Cars have gotten more reliable. There's less reason to buy new. Saavy buyers buy used so the average new car buyer is increasingly from the subset of the population that's materialistic and bad with money.
Would have been better off donating to charity