Why Slop Is Here to Stay

If you think content created by artificial intelligence is bad, you should take a closer look at what humans are making.

Credit: Milindri.

Sometimes, when I feel the pressure of a looming deadline like a vice around my frontal lobe, I will open Instagram and let the feed wash my brain of worry. I’m not proud of this habit, but it has allowed me to glimpse the abyssal plains of content, where minds go to be temporarily lobotomized, my own included. It’s like a cerebral crac…