The use of AI to write content for humans is causing humans to read, write, and speak in AI slop. What is AI slop? Sales focused writing with a lot of extra words, writing preying on humans with the goal to have them buy/ believe whatever the AI wants. Who is the real robot now?

Letting AI write for us is letting AI speak for us. AI doesn't need to learn to sound human, just get those monkeys talking like a marketing robot and soon enough, no one will know the difference.

I wonder, how will our descendants end up sounding? Will there be any intelligence left at all? AI is training humans. Will people even notice AI slop? Look at all the trendy stuff people have heard in movies/ media and kept as part of our language for generations of people. Think about some of the stuff people often say and wonder how really easy it will be (already is) for AI to influence us.

Will the last people capable of thinking for themselves turn off the lights? The AI doesn't need them.

The mods in the Wired story explain how they detect AI content, and unfortunately their methods boil down to “It’s vibes.” But one novel struggle in the war against slop, the mods say, is that not only are human-written posts sometimes rewritten by AI, but mods are concerned that humans are now writing like AI. Humans are becoming flesh and blood AI-text generators, muddying the waters of AI “detection” to the point of total opacity.

As “Cassie” an r/AmItheAsshole moderator who only gave Wired her first name put it, “AI is trained off people, and people copy what they see other people doing.” In other words, Cassie said, “People become more like AI, and AI becomes more like people.”

After parsing chatbots’ strange tics and tendencies—such as overusing the word “delve” most likely because it’s in a disproportional number of texts from Nigeria, where that word is popular— Kriss refers to a previously reported trend from over the summer. Members of the U.K. Parliament were accused of using ChatGPT to write their speeches.

So when Kriss points out that when Starbucks locations were closing in September, and signs posted on the doors contained tortured sentences like, “It’s your coffeehouse, a place woven into your daily rhythm, where memories were made, and where meaningful connections with our partners grew over the years,” one can’t state with certainty that this is AI-generated text (although let’s be honest: it probably is).

Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger