"We were drowning in slop long before AI": the case that AI slop is the hero
taherdhanera · x · 2026-09-02
The author argues that humanity was already producing and happily consuming low-quality content — bad ads, lazy articles, recycled movies, soulless corporate copy — long before AI arrived, and nobody called it a moral failure.
He sees the backlash against "AI slop" as a double standard: AI didn't create the slop problem, it exposed and amplified a pre-existing human appetite for it, so AI slop is arguably "the hero" rather than the villain.
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