There's AI slop and anti-AI slop
There's AI slop and anti-AI slop
Posted May 30, 2026 19:11 UTC (Sat) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)In reply to: There's AI slop and anti-AI slop by dskoll
Parent article: Nesbitt: Protestware for coding agents
> When AI slop crowds out human-written books, human-written books are hard to find (I bet most people use Amazon to discover new books, and when they see 20 AI books to 1 human book, it makes human books much less discoverable.) And so humans end up losing money
I guess the real question is: when you buy a book, are you looking for a good read, or are you looking for a good read written by a human?
There's a lot of crap being written by humans too. There aren't that many great books, a lot are just mediocre. So what is the end game here? Perhaps I can read books specifically written for me that noone else will ever read. Is this a bad thing? That for the rest of my life I only read for me great books.
In any case, humans aren't losing money: AI isn't being paid. The money you spend is still going to a human, just different ones.