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I experienced the same thing and was unable to read it verbatim. Instead, I CMD+F'd to the stuff I was curious about, then decoded the slop into human as best I could. I'm confident this is the work of a cyborg, but compared to something human written, it's unreadable in its entirety.
My aesthetic reaction is becoming problematic in the sense that I can hardly even use AI for personal use anymore. Like, if I ask it to diagnose a bug in my code, or provide feedback on a paper, if it talks the way these bots talk, I can't even stomach reading it. Opus 5 is the worst offender, IMO. I find Grok 4.5 and ChatGPT 5.6 to be a bit better on that front.
I feel the opposite 🤔
I read all the slop I order myself[1] and I spend hours upon hours every day reading slop. It's probably my #2 activity now, ugh. But whenever someone else's slop shows up on my screen, I cry a tear, and stop reading and most often don't even scan it. I could probably code me a bot to reformat it into something I can embed (which makes it totally unreadable) and prevent loss of information[2] that way.
I do specify output templates though, and when I first tried Opus 4.8 it ignored my instructions and I didn't rest until I got it to not ignore me, also I've largely moved away from Claude because of the endless cockups and regressions ↩
Speaking of information, back in the early 2000s, I designed and lead a team building a system for data quality management at row granularity for a multi-tenant data warehouse. I'm starting to think that I need to build a set of metrics on my big vector databases that culminate into a float that in turn I can multiply
scorewith, so that I get higher quality information out. I don't want to be gaslit by someone else's poor prompt infecting my knowledge base :-/ ↩
I keep trying to put my finger on what gives away the AI slop, but it's hard to wrap words around it.
There's something about phrases like "worth saying", "worth examining", and rapid-fire lists of numbers and technical terms that you feel like doesn't reflect how a real human processes information...