Researcher: AI slop science would have been human slop anyway, like blaming Word
RexDouglass · x · 2026-11-14
Rex Douglass continues the AI vs. human science debate: the "third category" of work people complain about was always going to be low-quality output—it's just AI slop instead of human slop now. The counterfactual isn't that those authors would have produced excellent work by hand. He compares it to blaming Word, arguing cheerleaders underestimate baseline human slop rates and that AI, like driving, is already "safer" because humans are just that bad.
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