2024-30 will be text's doping era, argues economist on AI-generated slop
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-12
Economist Paul Novosad offers a sharp analogy for the AI-text era: if we eventually solve AI slop, 2024–30 will look like the Tour de France's doping era — every text carries an asterisk, worth reading only to understand the age of AI-generated content. Quoting a prediction that authors may go to extraordinary lengths to prove their work is human-written (live-streaming their desks, sharing Google Doc edit histories), he illustrates with the list of Tour winners stripped of titles for doping, including Lance Armstrong's lifetime ban.
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