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AI Slopification and Writing

An analysis of why AI-generated text is so easily detectable, tracing its roots to the homogenized writing style of the 2010s internet, and why the internet is being flooded with low-quality AI content despite its shortcomings.

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AI Slopification and Writing
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  • AI writing sounds the same because it was trained on a specific era of online writing that was heavily edited and optimized for SEO and engagement.
  • The use of em-dashes and other stylistic markers became associated with AI due to their prevalence in the training data, not because they are inherently AI-specific.
  • Profit-driven publishers prioritize SEO ranking over quality, leading to a proliferation of AI-generated 'slop' that degrades the internet's information quality.
  • This slop may cause 'model collapse' as future AI models are trained on increasingly homogenized AI-generated content.

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