Slop is text you haven't read, not text you haven't written

sixhobbits 14 points 8 comments April 16, 2026
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sph

"I'm one of the few people you'll meet who's written more books than they've read." — Garth Marenghi. He was a great author and visionary of his time. If only he had had access to LLMs...

raskah

Written by an entrepreneur who is "currently building Ritza, a technical writing agency." Really 100% of the time there is a direct motive for the increasingly clever AI articles that say "human output is no different!"

calmingsolitude

> if you edit those [LLM tropes] out, or ignore them, you can’t really argue that the writing produced by these models is objectively ‘bad’ any more. Well, it isn't good either and that's the problem. It's just average.

mulr00ney

> if you edit those [LLM tropes] out, or ignore them, you can’t really argue that the writing produced by these models is objectively ‘bad’ any more. > or ignore them If you ignore the bad thing then the bad thing is good. What the fuck are you talking about?

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