>  how many people care about consuming slop

Not enough. I've started to see it crop up in my town, for advertising graphic design. To me it is abominable.

There should be more efforts to ridicule it.

Yeah, that's a good question.

An American guy who speaks about his life in Korea, whose posts the algorithm occasionally pushes to me, used to write decent content. I then suddenly saw one of his latest posts being pure #AIslop. I called him out on it. Just a passive-aggressive #AIslop tag~~ He responded, attacking me, asking me for what _I_ could have done better. Yet, the majority of his readers seemed to be completely fine with his switch to using AI to generate _his_ thoughts.

So, there's that. Maybe more and more people are ok with slop? Maybe we're the last generation who still remembers the _before times_? 

Shit, I've become the new boomer.

It's unclear to me how many people care about consuming slop. Stacker News just needs to find those that do.

Undisciplined

I do not think honest work is going away, but I do think it is being pushed into a narrower, harder-to-find tier, the way handmade goods got pushed away when the factories arrived. There will still be a livelihood in it, and for some of us a very rewarding one, but the path to that livelihood will increasingly require you to do the work 

, for why your version of it is worth more than the cheaper, louder, hollower alternative. And that is a significantly harder game than the one we used to play. The simplest thing I can offer to anyone reading this, who is tired of being out-shouted by the bullshittery, is also the most boring:

Keep doing the work, keep a principled and honest stance, keep saying 

 when you don’t, keep being embarrassable. Even though the market is bad at rewarding it right now, it will not continue to be forever. Hopefully.

Unfortunately, niche, and maybe it'll never reach a tipping point, but I do believe that I am not alone in feeling tired, just tired, of the amount of AI slop I am forced to read every day.

I am starting to speak out, more and more. Students that give me a canned AI response to a question I send them. Not even doing the effort anymore. Not even taking responsibility for the word salad they force into my brain.

I will make them embarrassed. I called one out in front of his advisor.

And I will pay the embarrassment when something I generated with AI is wrong, reminding me that I bear final responsibility.

Honest work will make a return. It has to.

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The Rise of the Bullshittery

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> I do not think honest work is going away, but I do think it is being pushed into a narrower, harder-to-find tier, the way handmade goods got pushed away when the factories arrived. There will still be a livelihood in it, and for some of us a very rewarding one, but the path to that livelihood will increasingly require you to do the work *and* to make the case, *in public*, for why your version of it is worth more than the cheaper, louder, hollower alternative. And that is a significantly harder game than the one we used to play. The simplest thing I can offer to anyone reading this, who is tired of being out-shouted by the bullshittery, is also the most boring:

> Keep doing the work, keep a principled and honest stance, keep saying *I don’t know* when you don’t, keep being embarrassable. Even though the market is bad at rewarding it right now, it will not continue to be forever. Hopefully.

I think SN is a good example of what _could_ be. Rewarding good human content.

Unfortunately, niche, and maybe it'll never reach a tipping point, but I do believe that I am not alone in feeling tired, just tired, of the amount of AI slop I am forced to read every day. 

I am starting to speak out, more and more. Students that give me a canned AI response to a question I send them. Not even doing the effort anymore. Not even taking responsibility for the word salad they force into my brain. 

I will make them embarrassed. I called one out in front of his advisor.
And I will pay the embarrassment when something I generated with AI is wrong, reminding me that I bear final responsibility.

Honest work will make a return. It has to.