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no slop grenade: Stop throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
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this post was submitted on 22 May 2026
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It's a lost cause on here, as soon as you made a comment that wasn't immediately and clearly anti-AI you're going to get dogpiled with bad faith arguments and downvotes.
The irony of people commenting in a post promoting human writing while also failing to understand basic concepts of writing, such as irony.
I assume you went to the "ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife"* school of irony?
Irony typically requires the things to be equivalent. AI writing is not equivalent to human writing, a private website is not slack and a comment about the detriments of AI is not equivalent to a work chat. The only common element would be essays, and they weren't the subject of criticism.
And even then, the page isn't nearly the same style as the essays they're complaining about.
Maybe it's a reading comprehension issue? Should probably ask some LLM to pick out the core points, maybe it'll do a better job.
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*Alanis Morissette, Ironic, a song that contains as many good examples of irony as bad ones
It's an anti-essay essay, it was obvious that they were making a surface level joke if you're not looking for reasons to be outraged.
It should have been very clear to you what they meant, since the person clarified what they meant 8 hours before your comment and that comment was, literally, 2 comments under mine.
It is hypocritical, bordering on ironic, to condescend about reading comprehension while ignoring the very thread you are participating in.
I mean can pro-AI comments at least make sense?
People not finding someone writing an essay in response to being annoyed at people sending them irrelevant essays funny is acceptable enough to me. I don't care if people don't share my humor. The absolute wall of defensive text I've received in response is also funny, in a discussion about an essay about the value of brevity. And so is the idea that any of this is pro AI. I can also assure you the irony of how much I've typed is also not lost on me. Frankly this thread is about to produce a singularity of irony.
Oh there's plenty of funny stuff going on and it's not like the downvotes matter. I mean that guy using Socratic irony to tell my why I found something ironically funny was wrong was amusing in itself if incredibly tedious.
It's irony all the way down