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		lexandstuff 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't Fall for AI: Reasons for Writers to Reject S... Personally, I think it's a perfect word for what it is: carelessly created content that no one wants.

charcircuit 3 months ago [–]

Except you also see people complain about how many likes or views they get on social media. There is signal that people like a subset of "slop".

JKCalhoun 3 months ago | [–]

Worse (?) a lot of what actual humans write is slop.

the_af 3 months ago | | [–]

This doesn't mean we should make slop easier to create.

More slop is a bad, not a good thing.

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