Opinion: AI Will Help Mop Up Extensive Human Slop
_akpiper · x · 2026-07-24
Countering the common fear of "AI slop," the author argues that human-generated slop is actually far more extensive, and AI agents will be crucial in cleaning it up.
Quoting Brendan Nyhan, the post suggests that running a frontier LLM as a reviewer agent over manuscripts from the past or present would reveal shocking amounts of low-quality content and flaws.
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