Sloppelgängers

Superhuman’s CEO sat for an interview about the AI feature that used writers’ names without permission. What he revealed was worse than the feature itself.

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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.

Misarticulation: Why We Sometimes Feel Our Words Don’t Match Our Thoughts

People do not always say what they mean. In everyday conversations, people regularly sense that they have not fully communicated what they had in mind—a subject

The Grammar Your UI Doesn't Know It Speaks - Nightflight

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

Grammarly acquires AI email client Superhuman | TechCrunch

In its announcement, Grammarly said it wants to build AI agents for emails using Superhuman's tech.

Neurotica (@schwarzgerat.bsky.social)

slop is something that takes more human effort to consume than it took to produce. When my coworker sends me raw Gemini output he’s not expressing his freedom to create, he’s disrespecting the value of my time ↘️ quoting AI Liker Georg (@avengingfemme.bsky.social): probably orthogonal to your view of slop but: bsky.app/profile/aven...

Malicious Streetlight Effects Vs. "Directional Correctness" - A Semi-Non-Apology

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Yap: a particular kind of slop

Writing code comments has always been hard, because communicating is hard. It's hard to not assume context. It's hard to use the right terminology consistently. It's hard to even put comments in the right spots to begin with. It generally takes me several iterations of rewording a comment to get something I'm happy with. I'll write something lousey that takes 5 times as long to read as it should, and then read it. Then I'll remove a couple sentences, tweak what remains and do it again.

The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of large language models

Language is far more than a communication tool; it encodes a wealth of information about a person’s identity, psychological state and social context, providing valuable insights for diverse fields including psychology, marketing and healthcare. Across three studies spanning seven datasets in different domains and over 880,000 texts, we show that the widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) as writing assistants is linked to declines in linguistic diversity, interfering with the societal and psychological insights language provides. While core content is retained when LLMs polish and rewrite texts, LLMs also homogenize writing styles, reducing writing-complexity variance by a statistically significant 21–50% across datasets and models (P ≤ 0.05), and amplify patterns associated with dominant characteristics while suppressing others, emphasizing conformity over individuality. These trends hold across different LLMs, prompts and contexts, with potential implications for diagnostic processes, personalization efforts, hiring assessments and cultural preservation.