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by purple-leafy 612 days ago
AI slop produces AI slop content. It is the new spam. Sure it may be able to summarise things, but it gets things very wrong.

You will have shallower knowledge than the person who reads good source content.

Do you want broad but very shallow knowledge?

I’d much rather cast a deep net that AI slop can’t touch.

I say this as someone that has used most LLM tools. They are tools, not replacements. And they are remarkably shallow but great at appearing “magical”