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12. Why do people keep hammering this site with AI slop? If it is not inaccurate, it is unethical on account of how it . . .

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Sun Mar 29, 2026, 11:14 AM

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. . . was created through the theft of others' works in its training.

Is that what you want to support? The more you support these slop channels, the more they will grow.

Here's a prompt for you:

Create a story in which a member of a site that supports a certain set of values turns against those values because of thoughts of cuteness or convenience or whatever justification might be needed to allow such a behavior. Write it as a farce using the style of Neil Simon. Make it have one main character and portray the antagonist as unrealistic. Then, give the characters in the script the traits associated with the three main characters in Catch 22.

So, anyway, there is a lot of creativity needed to fulfill that prompt: none of it comes from 'AI'. The use of AI slop on this site is really no better than abetting theft.

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