Generative AI's main achievement so far has been to lower what we expect of what we read and of ourselves when we write.

AI slop Low-quality generated content at volume, and what it does to the places it lands in.

AI and human skill Practised abilities decaying because a machine now does them: writing, thinking, reading anything long.

AI writing Prose a model wrote: what gives it away, what it does to reading, and whether anyone should publish it.