https://archive.ph/YSqEu https://archive.ph/YSqEu "But the idea that AI has quietly crowded out humans is not exactly right. Slop requires human intervention

https://archive.ph/YSqEu https://archive.ph/YSqEu "But the idea that AI has quietly crowded out humans is not exactly right. Slop requires human intervention or it wouldn’t exist. Beneath the strange and alienating flood of machine-generated content slop, behind the nonhuman fable of dead-internet theory, is something resolutely, distinctly human: a thriving, global gray-market economy of spammers and entrepreneurs, searching out and selling get-rich-quick schemes and arbitrage opportunities, supercharged by generative AI."