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< yesterday 9 July 2026 UTC

AI is a tool that makes it easier to create stuff, whether beautiful stuff or crummy stuff. AI slop comes from people who think that crummy stuff has value, because in the past, human attention lent it some. AI makes the world better, people make the world worse. AI has to improve a lot before it can make the world worse on its own. But that's OK, people are working on it.

clue:

Crime that exploits computer security weaknesses is similar. AI makes the crime easier. It equally makes defense against the crime easier. If anyone bothers.

I expect that AI slop will fall to a modest level after a while. It will lose what its creators perceive as its value.

give me a clue so sweet and true

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