The AI slop firehose is drowning 'a little stage play pretending to do science'
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-17
In the follow-up to his thread, RexDouglass frames the AI slop debate: 'The little stage play we put on pretending to do science is getting drowned out by fully automated performances and we're mad about that' — as opposed to admitting 'it's always been an intractable sorting problem.'
Related event: Researcher Warns AI Slop Papers May Collapse Scientific Synthesis(2 posts)→
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