AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality
Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.
AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality
Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.
How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science
Preprint repositories and conference organizers are having to counter a tide of ‘AI slop’ submissions.
AI Slop is Killing Online Communities
Like a young child coming home from kindergarten with their latest crayon scrawls, the internet is currently awash with people sharing their AI-generated work. And just like the young child’s drawings, much of that work should be proudly put up on the walls within the artist’s house—and no further.
AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone
Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits.
AI's aesthetics of failure
On the demise of Sora and our enduring revulsion to AI slop
Rude Slop Behaviour
This essay aims to introduce social stigma around certain types of AI use, or at the very least, reduce the amount of slop I receive. What is slop? I like the deepfates definition: Watching in real time as “slop” becomes a term of art. the way that “spam” became the
AI slop
AI slop is digital content made with generative artificial intelligence that is perceived as lacking in effort, quality, or meaning, and produced in high volume as clickbait to gain advantage in the attention economy, or earn money. It is a form of synthetic media usually linked to the monetization in the creator economy of social media and online advertising. Coined in the 2020s, the term has a pejorative connotation similar to spam. "Slop" was selected as the 2025 Word of the Year by both Merriam-Webster and the American Dialect Society.
An Elegant Solution to AI Slop: Tax It, and Use the Resulting Billions of Dollars to Fund Cultural Institutions, Artists, and Researchers
A technologist proposes slapping a "slop tax" on companies that use or create generative AI content.
AI slop has hit the science communicators
Stop Clicking on Junk: How to Identify and Ignore AI-Generated Slop Today
The internet is slowly being flooded by AI slop. What is it and how can you avoid it?
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ideas on how to learn and grow using ai but not necessarily 100% ai generated slop learning
The AI Discourse
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Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X
Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X
Large language models are not the problem
AI Is Not Conscious, But It Is Our Unconscious
AI Is Not Conscious, But It Is Our Unconscious
Technology is a Siren Song
Three Questions on Questions: On Asking, Knowing and Noticing
LLMs reward expertise
Programming (with AI agents) as theory building
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AI Coding will Prevent Expertise | Lars Faye
Cognitive Surrender
Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier
Evan Hubinger on Twitter / X
Of Swarms and Sand Gods
Inducing language models to assert their own consciousness restores human beliefs and values
Very sad to see Rick get driven off of Bluesky by sharing a report of using Claude Code to do something cool and useful. The absolute vitrio…
The Problem With AI Is Shitty Human Beings
Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents
The Alien Space of Science: Sampling Coherent but Cognitively...
NovGauge: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Diagnosing LLMs'...
Citing Less Critically: LLMs Reshape the Rhetoric and Reach of Scientific Citation
Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X
AI Research Evaluation: Negative Findings and Failure Modes | Arvind Narayanan posted on the topic | LinkedIn