PyTorch core dev offers a crisp definition of AI slop: cheaper to produce than to consume
yaroslavvb · x · 2026-11-05
yaroslavvb, a PyTorch core developer, offers a one-line definition of AI slop: content that takes less human effort to produce than it takes to consume.
The definition pinpoints the core pathology of AI-generated content flooding the internet — near-zero marginal human effort to mass-produce, while readers must spend real attention filtering and digesting it.
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