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Okay. I actually messed up, because I should have said "zero attention to detail" - or at least close to it.
I'm of the unpopular opinion that "shipping" is overrated. It's in my opinion fomo to ship early if you didn't do severe quality control. This makes me slow af, but I avoid debt this way: do the work now, so that you don't have to do it later. Works except for when you have no idea what you're doing.
When Theranos went down, I was hoping we'd see the end of fake-it-till-make-it. But humanity is addicted to this. Both on the producing and the receiving end. We need to have dreams then get rekt while living that dream so we can move on to the next dream. Substance... is gone.
Much of the AI use we see is unsubstantial. The cases where it is substantial, you won't see, because it was just one cog in a giant machine. And that's what we're dealing with. Some noob that has no fucking clue what they're doing so they're letting an LLM do it for them. If they had an idea and/or actual standards, you'd never see the slop.
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But there are also examples of people (misguided people, I believe) who put tons of time into "research" or "writing" with their llm and produce a piece of writing that is still slop. Maybe they think they have come to some bright idea or something, but it's not. It's just slop.
Here are some examples:
I think the authors in both cases spent a lot of effort on these things...or they think they did. But they are both slop. Just absolute wastes of time.
I don't think these people intended to produce slop; I think they didn't know any better. They seem to have spent hundreds of hours on their projects and fully convinced themselves that what they produced is meaningful.
It's still slop. It's horribly frustrating to read. I guess humans have been doing this for a long time: I remember reading some feminist, structuralist literary theory in university that was pretty awful...but even that didn't feel like slop. There's something else going on.