The issue, though, is not the length of the article. Heaven knows if you've been on the internet the last few years, the high-word-count enslopification is upon us. There's no shortage of words written in the most cloying, sycophantic tone you can imagine. Slop has a certain repetition and tone that gets stale fast. Since there are no real writers involved in any LLM-written prompt, it makes them less than optimal to read.
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When I think about AI-slop articles, I picture a kid throwing cards at a ceiling fan to play 52-card-pickup, but with the English language instead of cards.
The result of the plagiarism of millions of articles and books would be a steaming pile of gibberish. The thinking is, “Just throw every book and article ever written at the fan,” and there you have it — those sure are… some sentences!
But they're not very good sentences, and people are starting to get pretty tired of having to wonder if what they're reading or seeing was written by a person with sensibilities, or churned out, unedited, by a machine that wouldn't care if you ate pizza made with glue. People are watching as the talented artists, writers, singers, and creators of our generation are getting pushed out of their jobs. If you know even one sad, unemployed person whose job is now being done, worse, by a robot, you might've started looking at AI in a different light.
As a real person myself, with bills to pay and a body powered by a lot of egg sandwiches, I promise that I would never ask you to read something a LLM cobbled together. I write every sentence fresh for the viewing audience, and so does everybody on this site, which is awesome!
The only difference is that now we all have to work extra hard to convince you we're human, which we do by writing sentences that AI could never write. Did you know that as a human, you can just construct-ify your own words? Because AI won't do that for you. You can slightly misuse words in the most gourmet kind of way, just because you think it adds to what you're saying; you can even use punctuation in beautiful ways, should you so choose; though we all know how maligned the hyphen has become lately due to LLM overuse. They'll take the hyphen from us writers over our cold, less-than-alive bodies!
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And that's exactly why Substack and Twitter articles are having a major moment, and why on X, readers delight over them. The enslopification won't stop real people from sharing their opinions. These articles are the real deal amongst an inescapable wave of brainrot fodder. And if anything, these writers are ensuring that we'll go visit them on their pages to check in with them and see what they've written on the daily. It's a little different from the blogs of old that had distinct websites, but clearly, this style of writing is what audiences are craving.
Personal blogging is about to have its major comeback, I'm calling it right now. Fierce, creative, emboldened writers are cracking their knuckles on their various platforms, preparing to out-write AI bots. We're just getting started!
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