I spend part of my day reading posts and I catch myself developing an allergy to AI slop. At the same time, AI is right into the editor, and attempts to change every word I write incorrectly. So not using it would be foolish. Here’s my gut feeling about what’s fine and what isn’t.
Not Fine
- Copy/pasting any direct results of a prompt. It deserves a separate post why that’s not fine but for now, it’s a form of bad taste.
- Any form of GenAI images. They were fun for a little bit. Now, they are just a way to state that the post is AI slop.
- Let AI change the meaning of content when improving. AI tends to flip the meaning when doing subtle improvements.
- Engine-oriented titles. If I’m the reader, I want text oriented for humans, not engines. The engines can burn some more CPU and figure it out.
- Letting AI remove complex words, slang, puns, and emotion. Too much uniformity doesn’t improve readability, it sterilizes the text.
- Emoji. Thanks to ChatGPT, emoji are like peanuts in a text.
Fine
- Syntax, clarity, and feedback. AI can help improve the structure and readability the text.
- Improve individual sentences. I tend to write long sentences and use unconfident words (examples from my post below). Funny that it uses the word unconfident but asks me to remove the word unconfident.
- Research. Copy/pasting the body of a post to ChatGPT sometimes help find stuff I missed and fact checks. Particularly useful for book reviews.
- SEO improvements, as long as it doesn’t change the meaning of the content.
Overall, when I catch excessive AI use, I feel an ick about the text. If it feels AI generated entirely, zero chance that I’ll read it.
Veselin.blog 
I totally get you. The minute I get a whiff of AI interference it puts me right off reading a post any further..I can see why people use it for commercial purposes ( which I won’t bother reading anyway) but a personal blog, nah, don’t want to know. I love the raw stuff people want to chat n write about xxxxxx
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Exactly! I feel the same way
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It loses the humanity
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Like a perfectly looking cake made of rubber
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I completely agree. There have been a few blogs I’ve stopped following because of the increased level of slop (sometimes, wholesale slop). If it isn’t important enough for a human to write, it isn’t important enough for me to read.
I’ll also admit that even when AI art is well done, the uncanny valley triggers the ick factor for me and I find myself skimming or skipping the content that follows when an AI generated image is used in the header.
Great thoughts on the matter.
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Yeah, it’s particularly unpleasant when the text comes from a professional setting and I must read it. I wish there was a flag indicating it’s a slop and can skip it
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I have the same experience in my professional world, so I can sympathize.
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