sethlazar fires back: costless AI slop is crushing the scientific and intellectual ecosystem
sethlazar · x · 2026-09-20
Continuing the AI-writing debate, sethlazar rebuts turingops' criticism, saying his "beliefs" about AI are irrelevant when you can point to a scientific and intellectual ecosystem being crushed by the weight of costless slop. He also disputes turingops' Amish analogy. The core disagreement: whether AI-generated content erodes or advances the system of scholarly communication.
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