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What makes you think this is slop?

Also, I think many people use the term "slop" and "AI was involved" interchangeably, but to me, they're not synonymous. To me, writing blog posts with the help of AI is fine (grammar checks, structural help etc.) while auto-generated content generation w/o human oversight is not.

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The negated sentence structure "X isn't just Y -- it's Z" directly followed by a list of 3 or 4 bullet points. Maybe the bullet points are a heavy reach but nobody can tell me otherwise of the former.

I agree on your first part! The whole article does read like slop tho; it's more like "Human was involved" here

AI writes like that because it was trained on the internet, which by now is mostly marketing copy.

Your heuristic isn’t just coarse — it’s misleading.

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