Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Learning to recognize AI slop is now a core professional skill

Bleakly, learning to recognize AI slop as something that's going to require a lot of re-work is becoming a core professional skill. AI generated text scans as plausible and lacks the traditional signs of rushed work (spelling, formatting and grammar errors), but a deeper read betrays the lack of integration and coherence. The text has extraneous content that no human would take the time to write out, which betrays it being sourced from somewhere else. Cribbed from an essay for a related topic but not quite responding to the prompt.