RE: Are we becoming too paranoid about AI slop? by Andreas

Andreas tells a story of seeing an image of cats on social media with several many comments decrying it for being "AI generated". Do we now have the obligation to check each and every picture, video, quote, text, post, etc. that we come across for whether it's human or AI generated? Do we have to apologise profusely if something slips through and we accidentally share slop? Do we have to police each other and check other people's posts and point out to them (with proof!) that they posted or shared or quoted slop? Is this the 2026 version of having fun on the internet? Like Noisy Deadlines, I think I'm pretty good at spotting generated content — part of my job involves analysing LLM responses so I'm quite exposed to the tells. And, like Matt, I strongly feel that using an LLM to generate content for your blog is missing the point. I'm starting to see some puritanical behaviour around "boosting slop" as if we are morally reprehensible for sharing LLM generated content. I've written…