Humans perfected meaningless garbage long before AI joined the competition
VraserX · x · 2026-10-13
A counterintuitive take on AI slop discourse: people talk as if the internet was an intellectual paradise before ChatGPT. The author points to Facebook, LinkedIn, and half of YouTube as evidence that humans perfected producing meaningless garbage long before machines joined the competition.
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