"remove friction" is how you get slop
KJ Charles
There's an infuriating AI article in the Society of Authors magazine. "Bec Evans searches for principles that could guide authors' use of generative AI." A bunch of authors who all say they wouldn't use it to write but will to 'research', 'remove friction', 'fact check and propose rewrites'.
Mar 21, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Tool Making Follow-Up: What I Mean by Friction
Hopefully clearing up some of my vagueness to reduce misunderstanding.
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
What If Sliding Could Be Controlled?
FRICTIONAL AI WORKSHOP
Topics of the Workshop In its third edition, this workshop builds on and expands its exploration of friction-in-design in AI systems, hosting a full-day event that challenges the pursuit of seamless, rapid interactions. In contrast to the conventional narrative that human over-reliance on AI stems
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.
The Friction I Don't Want to Lose
I love learning. And while the friction of solving new problems is increasingly traded for speed, the experience gained by overcoming that friction is as important as ever.
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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?
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...
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…
SLOP - An alternative to MCP. github.com/agnt-gg/slop
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
Grass Toucher Georg
probably orthogonal to your view of slop but: bsky.app/profile/avengingfemme.bsky.so…
On slop
Interesting content about the AI slop phenomena
friction is good
how friction and struggle help grow, learn, create, develop.
Lincoln Michel on Twitter / X
No Big Deal review – is this how AI ends humanity … with a sitcom so bad it bores you to death?
Life on the Uncanny Precipice | Naomi Saphra
@mosermostly.bsky.social had what is likely the correct read: that they will use this to train a bot to seem less botlike
davidad 🎇 on Twitter / X
trying to articulate what i hate about "AI writing"
The case against efficiency: friction in social media
Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain - Here's how to do it
AI Coding will Prevent Expertise | Lars Faye
Cognitive Surrender
AI Dry July: Aborted
Japanese web design: weird, but it works. Here's why
