Ethan Mollick says AI writing may not be “slop,” but it is still changing human work
emollick · x · 2026-07-29
Ethan Mollick says he is hesitant to call the work “slop” in the usual sense of low-quality, cliched AI text.
His point is that people may genuinely like the output, and its merit should not be judged only against the average human-written romance or similar genre fiction. Even if it is not “slop” in the pejorative sense, he argues it still matters as evidence that AI is changing human work.
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