Source: Vincent Bernat
As writers increasingly delegate drafting to LLMs, the web is filling with generic, factually sloppy, and derivative articles that read like plausible lies—a phenomenon called "slop." This degrades the signal-to-noise ratio for readers, pollutes search results with low-effort content, and creates perverse incentives for publishers to prioritize volume over rigor. The debate isn't about AI assistance itself, but about whether tools that reduce friction to publishing should also reduce the standards for what gets published.