Economist Paul Novosad: AI slop is crowding out authentic work — we need a firewall
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-01
- Economist Paul Novosad (179K followers) argues that while any single AI-generated text may be fine in isolation, enabling thousands of "slop-peddlers" to flood every channel with well-written garbage makes authentic work hard to find.
- He invokes "bad money drives out the good" and calls for a firewall between spaces where fully AI-generated text is and isn't allowed to live.
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