That's something I've attempted to say more than once but never formulated this well.

Every time I search for something tech-related, I have to spend a considerable amount of energy just trying to figure out whether I'm looking at a well written technical document or a crap resembling it. It's especially hard when I'm very new to the topic.

Paradoxically, AI slop made me actually read the official documentation much more, as it's now easier than to do this AI-checking. And also personal blogs, where it's usually clearly visible they are someone's beloved little digital garden.

I had this "shower" thought when chatting with a friend and getting an obviously LLM-generated answer to a grammar question I had (needless to say the LLM answer misunderstood the nuance of my question just as much as the friend did before). Thank you for linking the article, I will share that with my friend to explain my strong reaction ("please never ever do that again")

The most annoying part - the recipients email client probably offered to summarise with an LLM. My bot makes slop for your bot to interpret.

Its the most inefficient form of communication ever devised. Please decompress my prompt 1000x so the recipient can compress it back to my prompt.

I will say though, even a chatgpt email tells you a lot about the sender.

The question I ask is "How do you justify saving your time at expense of others' time?"

Haven't heard a good answer, just mumbling "it can be set to be less verbose..."

Damn. Nailed it.

Thank you for this great answer! It's something I intuitively felt but couldn't put my finger on with the same surgical precision you just did.

Sending a shitty AI representation of a dick pic.

there's that, too...

Specifically this - in terms of learning a language, understanding some nuances also absolutely requires an explanation by a native speaker that has a really good grasp of their language AND a talent of explaining. Both of which are criteria diametrically opposed to the average slop training data.

Totally agree. It's no where near the level of a dick pic - a dick pic is sexual harassment.

I absolutely cannot stand the kind of people who answer a brief and simple yes or no question with a wall of text or a two minute voice note. If it's that complicated, because your pet chihuahua just had a stroke and you then fell in love head over heels with the veterinarian and that you're currently at the airport to fly away for your spontaneous honeymoon, just say no and tell me about the details in person.

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I often use AI to break up my ADHD mono-sentence paragraph. I'll stream of consciousness my reply then tell it to not change my wording but break up the excessively long sentences, and to reorder and split things into paragraphs that follow well. I'm still doing the writing, but having an advanced spell check is actually super useful.

That, and for some questions (i.e. nuances), a personal opinion is much more relevant to the asker than some random slop explanation. In this case I wanted to know which word construct in Turkish comes closes to the English "[ so and so ] is [ whatever ], isn't it?" vs. "[ so and so ] is not [ whatever ], is it?" - Because Turkish has "isn't it?" (değil mi? = not so?) but it doesn't have "is it?", mostly because "to be" is used much different in the language.

A google result wouldn't help me at all - the pure grammar answer is "there's no form of 'is it' to be coupled with a negative assumption/assertion". But does a language construct exist to transport the nuance of "the speaker assumes that something is NOT [soandso], and wants to ask confirmation" vs. the speaker assuming that something IS [soandso], and asking for confirmation.

I still don't know the answer, but it appears this nuance can't be expressed in Turkish without describing around it in a longer sentence.

Or just sending the link to chatgpt.

"Don't ask me, just ask chatgpt! What am I, your boss or something?!"

I am slowly switching to increasingly less diplomatic reactions when I feel someone is using slop to respond to me or produce any kind of work text. Eventually I'll probably advance to offensive reactions à la "Are you so f*cking incompetent that you can't do better than copy-pasting into a glorified word prediction software?"