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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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theres people that actually do this?
Plenty
Oh absolutely, and on all sorts of communication.
I sat befuddled at what the hell I was reading when I went to read a reply to an email I had fired off at the end of the day and didn't check until next morning. Turned out he wanted to be 'cute' and so he had AI slop up his out of office reply. So instead of "Out of office, will be back on MM/DD" I had read two paragraphs of bizarre fan fiction looking junk apparently intended to make his three day weekend sound like some fantasy epic.
Someone asked me to help with something and I said sure, and then within they minute, they pasted a wall of text saying "this is what ChatGPT had to say, so it should help you get going". It didn't work for them, so why they thought I would both find it useful and couldn't have asked an LLM myself, no idea. It was totally wrong and that's why they screwed it up harder, but still thought the AI must have been right.
I've received multiple bug reports and pull requests with confusing long winded essays that bothered to bring up details that were both not relevant and yet also incorrect.
Lol go open any AI related community on reddit and half the replies are chatgpt copy paste that's full of fluff and filler.
Which is even funnier because I've seen actual AI bots give better responses which makes me wonder why those users bother to generate an answer at all.
Had this coworker who wrote 1-liner "bug reports". When I told him I need more info where it happens, what happens and what the expected result should be he started to use AI to "improve" his reports. The ai slop just added more filler words and obvious statements, but nothing useful that would help me to reproduce the issue, because it did not know the software, application or code behind it.
LinkedIn is the definition of this.
It's probably more common in some communities than others. I hang out in a lot of AI spaces and many newcomers think it's acceptable to slop-post there just because of the topic of the community.