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Is Everything Made by AI Really Just “Slop”?

I keep hearing the phrase “AI slop” tossed around with the sort of relish usually reserved for complaining about school dinners or the state of modern television. It’s become one of those instant dismissals, a way to wrinkle one’s nose and wave away anything that happens to have an algorithm involved.

But is it really fair? Is everything touched by AI automatically destined for the creative compost heap? Personally, I don’t buy it, and the more I talk to people about it, the more it feels like the term tells us far more about the speaker than the work itself.

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