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Sourced pieces on slop, what it is, where it comes from, and how to recognise it. Written by a person, ironically enough.
What is AI slop?
Merriam-Webster made it the 2025 Word of the Year. Here is the actual definition, where the word came from, and what separates slop from AI-assisted work that is simply fine.
Read →How to spot AI-generated writing
The tells that actually hold up, the ones that get innocent people accused, and why running text through a detector is the worst available method.
Read →Worst AI image fails: the ones with real consequences
Not screenshots, incidents with police reports, published corrections and terminated contracts. Described in full, because the details are better than the images.
Read →Why the internet is filling with AI slop
It is an economics story, not a technology one. When the cost of producing a page falls to nearly zero, everything downstream of that cost breaks.
Read →AI slop vs human content: what actually differs
The useful comparison is not machine against person. It is content that someone is accountable for against content nobody checked, and those are different axes.
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