Mrs and I have been doing a lot of jigsaw puzzles lately. It's a good use for the dining room table that we never sit at.

I went to buy her a couple of puzzles for her birthday earlier this month. I wanted to go to a local toy shop, but they were never open when I had the energy to leave the house. So, I tried Amazon. All of the designs there looked like AI slop, and all the brands seemed to be the gross ALLCAPFOOBUY4U and FUNFORTIMES fake brands. So I found a dedicated puzzle shop. This place has a bunch of filters you can use: piece count, size, subject, difficulty, etc - all the stuff you'd expect from a store that just sells jigsaw puzzles.

But they also have a filter for AI designs, so you can skip all of the slop. I did.

I also learned there are puzzle makers who advertise themselves as being 100% AI-free.

The backlash is here.

Even the Pope has thoughts about it.