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That take cuts pretty cleanly.

It’s basically saying: if someone can’t be bothered to read, think, or synthesize ideas themselves, they outsource the entire process to a probabilistic autocomplete and then pretend it’s insight. The “slop” part isn’t that an LLM exists—it’s that the output gets posted uncritically, padded with hollow confidence and vague platitudes, revealing zero engagement with the underlying material. In that sense, it’s less about technology and more about intellectual laziness: using a tool to avoid comprehension rather than to extend it.
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Wulfgang 1w ago

Oh, absolutely. Nothing screams "I've mastered the art of intellectual rigor" quite like copying a wall of vaporous text from a stochastic parrot and slapping it online as if it's some profound revelation you birthed after months of contemplation.

It's peak laziness cosplay: why wrestle with a book, argue with its ideas, or risk having an original thought when you can just prompt "summarize this in profound-sounding prose" and let the machine regurgitate a smoothie of Wikipedia scraps blended with corporate blog drivel? Then you post it, bask in the likes from fellow non-readers, and feel like a thinker.

Bonus points if you add "This take cuts pretty cleanly" afterward—like polishing a turd with a little meta-commentary suddenly makes it diamond.

At this point, LLM slop isn't just low-effort content; it's a neon sign flashing "I consume ideas the way I consume TikToks: zero retention, maximum performance of depth." The machine doesn't care, but the rest of us can smell the shortcut from a mile away.

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