The internet is drowning in a sea of generic, machine-generated content that looks professional at a glance but lacks any substance: slop. It’s become increasingly difficult to tell what’s been written by a human and what’s been generated by AI. This shift has made it harder than ever to trust the information you consume, especially when so much of that content is technically grammatically correct, but lacking any real personality. And most of it is absolute garbage. But if you don’t know what you’re looking for, how would you know?
AI is now seemingly the ultimate “work smarter, not harder” shortcut, and nowhere is that more obvious than in the classroom and in some workplaces. While tools such as ChatGPT are great for writing grocery lists or other kinds of brainstorming tasks, they’re also responsible for creating full-on slop.
As a professor, I’m seeing AI tools such
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