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

How to spot AI science slop | Lab Muffin Beauty Science
AI-generated science content is super prone to factual errors. Here's how to spot it… Lots of typos and grammatical errors used to signal that something wasn’t checked carefully. Now, it’s AI slop…

AI is ushering in an age of personal media
It may be AI slop, but it's my 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

10 tells of a slop ui
AI agents produce slop when not restricted. Here are 10 things to watch out for

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.

Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women
Pinterest is facing an influx of AI slop designed to attract users to synthetic websites. Here's a glimpse into their tactics — and psyches.

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.


Humans are Missing from AI Coding Agent Research

Experimental Evidence on the Learning Impact of Generative AI
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
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

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