Of course it's gatekeeping, that's obvious. What's a little less obvious is that the gatekeepers are using bots for their anti-slop SLOP. It takes just a bit of

Of course it's gatekeeping, that's obvious. What's a little less obvious is that the gatekeepers are using bots for their anti-slop SLOP. It takes just a bit of fine-tuning to make a low-param LLM work well as a generator of anti-slop SLOP. This form of gatekeeping is so fiercely defended because it's one of the cheapest, easiest and with effects that far surpass its cost. It's beloved by bot-farms everywhere and old as the world, or at least as the first story about the thief yelling "catch the thief".