Re:AI Slop Threatens Trust in Science
by Rochus on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:25AM
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> AI Slop Threatens Trust in Science
The title of this post is terribly wrong and neither corresponds to the title of the article nor its claims. The article does not claim or demonstrate scientific slop; it's rather a low-information commentary; there is an irony in warning about low-value, superficially plausible content while offering little independently assessable evidence of its own.
I would rather say that trust in science has suffered long before AI, since the number of published articles has become much more important than their content, and postmodern activism has supplanted genuine scholarly work and reasoning.
The title of this post is terribly wrong and neither corresponds to the title of the article nor its claims. The article does not claim or demonstrate scientific slop; it's rather a low-information commentary; there is an irony in warning about low-value, superficially plausible content while offering little independently assessable evidence of its own.
I would rather say that trust in science has suffered long before AI, since the number of published articles has become much more important than their content, and postmodern activism has supplanted genuine scholarly work and reasoning.