- 2025-11-07 *
The case against slop
Sending LLM-generated text to someone expecting an intentional expression from a human’s brain is insulting. I want to hear what you think, how you are feeling, what your experiences are, and how your lived experiences reflect in your words.
To generate text using an LLM requires you to write a basic amount about what you want. The machine will try to string together something satisfactory and appealing to give you many more words than you put in.
But: What is the point of using words? To verbosely expand our character count while simultaneously desiccating retinas and melting the […
- 2025-11-07 *
The case against slop
Sending LLM-generated text to someone expecting an intentional expression from a human’s brain is insulting. I want to hear what you think, how you are feeling, what your experiences are, and how your lived experiences reflect in your words.
To generate text using an LLM requires you to write a basic amount about what you want. The machine will try to string together something satisfactory and appealing to give you many more words than you put in.
But: What is the point of using words? To verbosely expand our character count while simultaneously desiccating retinas and melting the spoon-sized-chunk of polyethylene in the brains of anyone unfortunate enough to be tricked into reading them?
Or to communicate complex ideas to one another?
More words for the sake of more words serves no real purpose. If you could express your intent well enough to feed an LLM why not express that intent directly instead? I don’t need em dashes—I want to see your ideation. If you use x amount of information to generate x+n amount of text all you have accomplished is making it longer to read with no more insight than before. The vague prose from LLM-generated text makes sense while skimming but becomes meaningless slop when pondered seriously. There is a distinct lack of soul and love.
Writing, pondering, rewriting, and reading from others makes us human. Practicing expressing clear thoughts will make you better at expression. Shortcutting that process is to rob yourself of independent, critical thinking later in life.
Maybe your prompt is short, grammatically wavering, and unprofessional. But so is life. Flaws are interesting and personal. To err is human.
Just send me the prompt.