The printing press, not AI, was history's original slop cannon
RexDouglass · x · 2026-10-29
- Misha Teplitskiy argues that while many see generative AI as ushering in a uniquely bad era of low-quality "slop," the printing press was actually the original slop cannon.
- Early print culture triggered widespread anger over the flood of low-quality information, mirroring today's complaints about AI-generated content.
- He recommends Adrian Johns' book The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making for a deeper look at this history.
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