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Re:Slop Cop by kstrauser on Friday April 17, 2026 @05:41PM (#47810903)
LOL. I copied and pasted an 87-word blog post I wrote yesterday, on my phone, via my own thumbs. It detected 4 likely AI patterns, or once every 22 words.

I'm so over this idiocy. It's gotten to the point that the "haha, gotcha!" AI claims are more annoying than AI slop itself. God forbid you use a semicolon or an em dash or an interesting sentence structure to break things up, because someone will be quick to point out the "proof" that it's machine generated.

Re:Slop Cop by awnist on Friday April 17, 2026 @05:57PM (#47811062)
It isn’t an AI detector. It flags valid language patterns that have become LLM-output clichés through overuse. False positives are a given.

and I'll never give up on em dashes

Re:Slop Cop by nz on Friday April 17, 2026 @07:47PM (#47811834)
I've taken to telling people, that if they see me write a long piece, that lacks em-dashes, then they should assume that I am under duress, and send help.