What Hadley Wickham thinks about AI slop

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Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.

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1. 23 Oct 2026

   Our readingSharing AI slop is acceptable only if it is never on anyone's critical path and is clearly labelled as slop.

   Their wordsFirst: it should never be on the critical path for anyone. I’m trying to generate a smile or a laugh, not add work to someone’s plate. Second: it must be clear that it’s slop.

   ↗What is slop?substack.hadley.nz 3rd of 4 in this piece