Feasting at the Trough of AI Slop

As the rest of the internet gets overtaken by bots and AI-generated content and oligarch-owners livestreaming megalomaniacal presidential candidates, the self-contained publications controlled entirely by professional humans win out.

We worry AI will replace writers. But have you seen most of what’s online? Half the internet is engagement farmers on LinkedIn selling you 5 steps to 10x your productivity by 6am.

You can see this mindset has infected everything:

• We join Twitter for the love of conversation—come out obsessed with likes.


• We pursue research for discovery—then get trapp

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