Stephen Downes

This is a really short post with an important message: Many blogs were slop. Many Geocities sites were slop. A lot of pop art was slop. Advertising is slop. B-movies were slop. Many pulp novels were slop. Pamphlets were slop. "You don't need AI to produce slop because slop isn't made by AI. It's made by humans - AI is just the popular tool of choice for making it right now. Slop existed long before LLMs came onto the scene." Image: Wikipedia.