It’s just a quick link this evening to a blog post about the “rise” of genAI slop, coming at it not from the “working with a corpus of stolen goods” angle or the “boiling lakes to make fake pictures” angle, but from the angle of the results of these next-word-guessing programs being basically useless. Which is also super-valid, alongside those other non-trivial concerns. Here, have a pull quote:

My gripes are more of a tangled web that I can only summarize as: the vibes are bad. The tone is unbearable. The lying as a fallback is offensive. The advertising keeps focusing on how you can coast through life without caring about your work or family because you can just generate a birthday card or whatever. The people funding and pushing it keep openly salivating at the idea of replacing as much human input as possible with a machine best known for generating titles of books that don’t exist.

Now, go read the whole thing because it’s so, so true, top to bottom.