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AI Slop Is Flooding Medium.
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this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2024
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Is this particularly worse than when Medium was filled with artisinally hand crafted slop before AI was a thing?
As someone who writes on Medium ocassionally — no.
Medium like all other blogging platforms has a problem of incentive. The pay is too little for quality writing and there's always a gamble on whether your article gets views as you don't control SEO or even formatting for that matter.
It was always filled with low effor slop because most are either:
I feel for Medium here as it does have an unsolvable problem really and AI has nothing to do with it.