> Why does AI slop feel so bad to read? Because it falls into the 10,000 bowls of oatmeal problem[1] ie: the perceptual similarity of generated content is homo

> Why does AI slop feel so bad to read? Because it falls into the 10,000 bowls of oatmeal problem[1] ie: the perceptual similarity of generated content is homogeneous. The procedural generation community has been familiar with this failure mode since 2016. The problem is that LLM output suffers from this failure mode too. Differences in authorial voice, ideas, and personality all get collapsed down into the average across all perceptual dimensions. It's not unlike the fighter cockpit problem[2] - the average of everything ends up not being representative of anyone. It's bland and meaningless and no one writes that way even though it's the mean of all written text. We can get away from this a little, but prompting LLMs to respond as if they were a certain author or a blend of different authors, but this doesn't create anything new, just a mimicry. Personality is an unsolved problem that's synonymous with avoiding oatmeal in my mind. 1. https://www.tumblr.com/galaxykate0/139774965871/so-you-want-to-build-a-generator https://www.tumblr.com/galaxykate0/139774965871/so-you-want-... 2. https://medium.com/continuousdelivery/no-one-size-fits-all-d7ad0a8cbe7b https://medium.com/continuousdelivery/no-one-size-fits-all-d...