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RTE
Summary
The piece introduces AI slop — a term capturing the deluge of low-quality, mass-produced AI content flooding the web. Slop is described as formulaic, shallow, and often misleading—less about intelligence than volume. The article warns this glut of content blurs meaningful discourse, degrades trust in credible sources, and threatens to overwhelm attention economy. While it stops short of doomism, it argues that we must resist normalisation of slop by emphasising critical reading, curation, and human judgment.
Key Points
- AI slop refers to content generated by AI that is high in volume but low in substance (generic, shallow, noise).
- This flood of slop threatens to drown out signals: quality writing, expert commentary, local voices.
- The problem is systemic: the incentives of clicks, cheap content creation, and algorithmic amplification feed its growth.
- To counteract slop, the article encourages media literacy, fact-checking, and more discerning consumption.
- Over time, unchecked proliferation could erode trust in digital media and make distinguishing truth from AI noise harder.
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