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New comment by plumbline in "AI slop is killing online communities"

plumbline — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:41:42 +0000

This is actually my hope for AI-gen content as well. That after it gets so 'good' that people genuinely can't distinguish it from reality anymore that they'll retreat (or return triumphantly rather) to the physical world to gather truthful fulfilling experiences and dopamine.

New comment by plumbline in "AI slop is killing online communities"

plumbline — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:39:23 +0000

Do we need a new carbon-credit style market for companies that want to continue putting out such slop and paying for moderators to remove the waste after it's been made?

New comment by plumbline in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

plumbline — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:32:03 +0000

I've been thinking about this a lot actually. It can almost be related to the conversation about specialization. The more specialized a model is required to be, the less capable it seems to be at a foundational level, where as if you just aim towards a liiitle bit of abstraction, you might get the best of both worlds.

Here's a pretty specific example of what I mean, but maybe food for thought:

Podcast (20 minute digest): https://pub-6333550e348d4a5abe6f40ae47d2925c.r2.dev/EP008.ht...

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00225