In Defense of AI Slop - by Evan Armstrong - The Leverage
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How can we reckon with the usefulness of LLMs?
In Defense of AI Slop How can we reckon with the usefulness of LLMs? Evan Armstrong May 08, 2026 ∙ Paid 61 2 12 Share Reading the internet is an exercise in the olfactory department. Every funding post on LinkedIn, every overly confessional Substack essay, reeks faintly of digital manure. AI slop is stinking up the web. The writing it offers is smoothbrained, uninteresting, limp-dicked drivel. I hate how it is changing so much of my online experience. And, in a sign of how incentives influence beliefs, I hate how it makes the market for my newsletter so much more competitive. This frustration
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