It’s the same reason why everyone doesn’t wanna read LLM generated blog posts. The agreement used to be generally that you would spend more time writing than I would have to spend reading and when the agreement changes the quality changes as well.
That's not it at all.
The problem with AI slop is that in general it's not worth reading, because to start off even the author deemed the topic wasn't even worth writing to begin with.
Worst, most AI slop blog spam was obviously not even reviewed by the bloggers who prompted them into existence. This means is also content that even the bloggers themselves felt wasn't worth reading at all.
But somehow they expect us to invest our time reading AI slop?
To me the issue is that everything becomes written in the same style pattern. I don't know why but if I spot it I wince internally and immediately skim the post or just outright stop reading. A large part of it is overexposure. For me it's made browsing the internet quite uncomfortable since it's unavoidable.
I mainly spend my online time in group chats these days.
That is such a miserably low bar
(I’m pretty sure both you and I would “know it when we see it”, but…)
EDIT: this is the one I was thinking of...
https://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2026/06/01/quality-in-the-ag...
But this is relevant too...
https://bersas.substack.com/p/zen-and-the-dance-of-generativ...
> would spend more time writing than I would have to spend reading
To your point however, the reason people don't like AI generated blogs is because there is a explicit recognition that the author of the blog lacked effort. There is a visceral response for the reader about the social contract "if you didn't spend as much time as I did why should I care about what's written here", it's however NOT that the quality is inherently poor (but perhaps one my insinuate that notion).
I can and I will say that, if not only for the fact that, in the eyes of many people, AI and the botched launch of the past few years has incurred a great amount of distrust. But, going further, the vast majority of AI-generated blog posts are lower quality, because they lack human thought and effort behind them. I'm not saying AI is completely incapable of writing what a human can, but we can't relate to how it "thinks", if you can call it that, and if someone is going to put enough effort into curating an AI's output and coaching it to make it output something that is really of a high quality... they just put in all of the human effort it would have taken for them to write it themselves.
I also don't think this should be construed to mean that human-written posts are universally good. AI slop is just the latest and most farmable iteration of a long history of badly written and poorly thought out content on the internet. In some ways the average AI blog is probably more coherent than any flat earth blog.
I also think that that visceral disgust at consuming AI generated work points to something else. We are all still trying to grapple with the ethical boundaries of what is okay and what isn't okay to do with AI, but I think most people feel deceived when they find out they're watching an AI video, or reading an AI blog post, and rather than assuming people are wrong to feel that way, we should consider that their feelings on the matter do matter. Nobody wants to be fed algorithmically optimized fake slop by YouTube, and that's okay.
Can you point us to a single blog (or even blog post) that is generated by AI that is excellent quality? Or even average quality?
Quality is a bit nuanced but that quality of AI generated content is subpar to expert output is fairly established.
The implications of this ever becoming false amounts to GAI.
Watch me.
I absolutely can and do. And pictures, and videos, and picture posts, and comics, and all image-format content.
If it wasn't worth creating with someone's brain, it is never ever worth my time to consume the prompt output.
Send me the prompt. I might look, if I'm bored.