Word Processing Slop? The historical analogy behind AI slop
joshgans · x · 2026-10-02
Kyle Podiak notes a precedent: before word processing, document length was bounded by human copying capacity; afterwards, tax and legal codes grew without check.
Josh Gans coins "Word Processing Slop" as an analogy for today's AI slop—when the cost of producing text collapses, redundant content proliferates uncontrollably, just as legal texts did. A sharp tech-history take on the AI content flood.
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