AI Slop
AI now matches or exceeds human-made content across the web - AI now publishes as much content as people in several arenas and likely more in automated marketing, support pages, and campus communications. Editors are pivoting from authors to stewards, curating and fact checking machine prose at scale. Provenance becomes policy, with pressure for disclosure, watermarking, and audit trails. Readers will judge by verification rather than byline. Metrics shift from author prestige to accuracy, timeliness, and correction speed. As noted in earlier posts on automation in colleges, the question is not whether AI writes but how institutions govern what it says.
Georges Braque, Rhum et guitare, 1918. Oil on canvas, Colección Abelló, Madrid. Public domain.