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AI Slop is Killing Online Communities
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this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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Pretty ironic the author used AI to write a slop article about how no one wants to see anyone else's AI slop....
Completely and utterly unaware that she's still flinging AI slop and people feel the same about hers that she feels about everyone else's.
Why do you think so? I'm not seeing anything that immediately screams "AI wrote this," but I'm open to learning.
Well, one of the first linked articles is them talking about how much they love using it and how fun it is and how everyone should be using it
I mean, that doesn't mean they had an LLM write their article(s). There's no shortage of people who praise AI, and they don't need an LLM to do it. That's a pretty weak connection.
I may not agree with their stance on AI at all, and I think it's fundamentally flawed, but I'm not going to accuse someone of outsourcing their writing when all we've got is "but they like AI, tho."
Why omit “using” from your summary at the end there? They wrote a whole article about how they love using AI and think anyone who doesn’t is comparatively unproductive. In fact they have over a dozen articles about adjacent AI topics. It’s not really a weak connection at all it’s literally just them saying they do the thing lol
Regardless, the blog itself actually has an AI disclosure: “I use AI heavily on this blog”. Followed by another article about how it is used “correctly” in this case. If you’re just in the mood to argue or whatever I guess we can debate the specific definitions and nuances between literally just copying a whole article from AI output (which they emphatically say they do not do) vs passing your writing through AI to assist you throughout the process
I wasn't actually trying to argue. I wanted to get to the bottom of why OP felt it was AI slop. This was and is an earnest question, because if y'all are seeing something, I'd like to know what that is, so I can stay attuned to the various tricks people use to hide when an LLM is speaking for them.
Gotcha, yeah I can appreciate insisting on higher evidentiary standards