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AI slop Low-quality generated content at volume, and what it does to the places it lands in.
AI writing Prose a model wrote: what gives it away, what it does to reading, and whether anyone should publish it.
Mental modelValue moves to what stays scarce
Their wordsAs publishers see the danger from AI bots expand, they retreat to putting more and more content behind either password protection or payment walls or both, leaving the only publicly-accessible content to be AI-generated slop; open resources like research work, scientific analysis, and fair use of content all suffer as a result of people responding to the bad actors, since legitimate uses of open content are no longer possible.
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↗Endgame for the Open Webanildash.com
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Their wordsWhat is out there is buried among ever-growing piles of useless content farm material or, increasingly, AI-generated garbage.
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↗Fighting for our webcitationneeded.news
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Their wordsThese new models are poised to flood the web with generic, generated content.
Where this was said
↗The Dark Forest and Generative AImaggieappleton.com
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