Ethan Mollick: AI slop replies bury real human responses on X
emollick · x · 2026-10-30
Ethan Mollick complains that each of his posts draws dozens of obvious AI slop replies, and worse, when real humans respond — like an Anthropic employee addressing an issue he raised — the reply-ranking algorithm doesn't surface them. "You can't really call this social media anymore."
He later added that LinkedIn now has better-quality comments, though it too is struggling with AI content.
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