Once upon a time in 2018 I posted a few of my written articles to Reddit and got some replies where I was accused of "posting low quality responses with low quality articles." A general theme in the comments was that the articles weren't thought out and my articles "lacked an ending".
Each to their own, I thought to myself. In hindsight though, I think they have had a point. A bit of my writing was sloppy and hastily written with typos. Plus the way I replied to posts with a link to my website saying "I recently wrote about this here..." is annoying. Imagine if someone did this in real life, and instead of answering a question would just answer with self-promotion instead. Anyway, all of this is to say that I'm experienced with bad writing.
Everything is slop
Before I begin, a quick refresher on what AI slop is. It's low-quality, low-effort mass-produced content generated by AI. There's no human curation or refinement. In software engineering, it is commonly used to describe the subpar code that LLMs produce. But it can also be images, text or video.
AI-generated slop writing is everywhere. Since AI-aided writing became a thing, there were trademark LLM-isms in the writing, such as the obvious em dash (—). This was annoying and made AI-aided writing obvious. But it wasn't everywhere. Then a friend introduced me to tropes.md, a markdown file that attempts to make AI writing more human-like. But instead of being a helpful resource, it ruined the Internet even more for me. The Internet's decline is progressing the same way a middle-aged man loses his hair. Little bits fall out and you think "there's no coming back from that. Soon I'll be bald". By the way, probably not a hot take but in my opinion the downfall of the Internet began around 2010.
