The AI Slop Backlash Is Having an Impact
wired.comI think that AI tools have lifted the floor of what's possible, but we haven't seen the roof of what's possible yet either. We need to redefine what's low-effort, rather than going after just the tools, since a) that's incidental and b) will probably be something different yet again in a couple of months anyway.
And yet, book publishers have offered --in one instance--2.3 million USD for an AI written text. Those aren't em dahses but the mis-spelling was deliberate to show this coment was not generated by AI.
Off-topic but I caught Gemma 4 32B making a typo on my Mac a few days ago-- it said mononpsy instead of monopsony. It felt like I should win a prize or something, I'd never caught an LLM making that kind of mistake before. It was the quantized Ollama version.