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Re:What if artificial intelligence is just a "normal" techno... by shakna on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @04:18AM (#45179068)
> In my opinion AI slop is slop not because AIs are basic but because the prompt is minimal

And you'd be disagreeing with the vast amount of research into AI. [0]

> Moreover, they exhibit a counter-intuitive scaling limit: their reasoning effort increases with problem complexity up to a point, then declines despite having an adequate token budget.

[0] https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-think...

Re:What if artificial intelligence is just a "normal" techno... by chpatrick on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @06:18AM (#45180015)
This article doesn't mention "slop" at all.
Re:What if artificial intelligence is just a "normal" techno... by shakna on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @06:34AM (#45180113)
But it does mention that prompt complexity is not related to the output.

It does say that there is a maximal complexity that LLMs can have - which leads us back to... Intelligence requires organizational complexity that LLMs are not capable of.