Wired Complained About LLM Slop Only Days Before It Got Caught Doing That Itself
"As artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney began to enter public consciousness, so too did a worrying trend of content called "AI slop," or sometimes just "slop."" -Snopes
So yesterday we said Condé Nast had finally admitted doing slop. Only a day earlier somebody told me that he suspected Wired was publishing slop and spam. He was right.
One week earlier Wired published the following piece:
And exactly 7 days later:
Accidentally?
Maybe someone caught that, complained, and then they went into crisis management mode.
How many more slop pieces did they publish (without getting caught)?
Never throw stones in a glass house, Wired. █