"I Now Suspect All Writing": Engineer on How AI Slop Broke Reading
cramforce · x · 2026-09-14
An engineer describes how AI slop has fundamentally changed his reading experience: he now spots the tells everywhere — short punchy sentences, relentless groups of three, unnecessary em-dash asides. Worse, his brain now flags perfectly innocent human writing as AI-generated too. AI hasn't just made bad writing less enjoyable, it has made all writing suspect. "That's a real loss," he concludes.
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