alt Hacker NewsMost content is slop, whether books or TV shows or movies or journalism.
That's why we have IMDB Top 250 lists, and books called "Classics". Curating collections and having taste has always been important, and is even more important now.
AI hasn't really changed that. There is good investigative AI-assisted writing today and there is also fully AI-slop fly-by-night websites made in 15 minutes with Claude.
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incognition • today at 4:36 PM
Part of the outrage is so called high literary critics have been fooled at book prizes.
Maybe a revolution like the blind taste testing of fine wines needs to happen in literature.
I maintain that the AI era is forcing us to finally build good filters.