The definition of AI slop keeps moving: errors, hallucinations, now credit
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-14
RexDouglass traces how criticism of AI-generated content has shifted: first it was "AI work has errors" (but so does human work), then "AI has unique error types like hallucinated citations," and now "AI work is as good as human work but the human doesn't deserve credit." With an applied-statistics quip that authors shouldn't use tools they don't understand, he argues the moving goalposts amount to cope — reflecting how the debate over AI content quality and academic credit keeps changing shape.
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