“Adding Bits Beats AI Slop”, by Gwern · Gwern.net
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AI slop is unsatisfying because there is no 𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑟𝑒 there. It is intellectual junk food that mimics nutrition but delivers only empty calories. Satisfying AI outputs must embed dense information and compute to actually reward a reader’s attention. You inject this value through brute-force search, non-trivial prompting, and rigorous curation, ensuring the final result reflects genuine algorithmic effort rather than the zero-shot ‘WYSIWYG’ default.