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Re:Slop Cop on Saturday April 18, 2026 @11:27AM (#47816657)
There is a one shot rewrite function now, but you're right, even when asking the LLM avoid some of the patterns, it will stubbornly repeat them. It's a bit more reliable with smaller fragments of text.
Re:Slop Cop on Saturday April 18, 2026 @11:11AM (#47816521)
Good idea, I did test on HN op/ed submissions and likely upgraded my own wetware slop radar in the process
Re:Slop Cop on Saturday April 18, 2026 @10:56AM (#47816413)
That's right, its tokenization and fragment rules use fairly simple heuristics that assume whitespace delimited words plus English language/punctuation. Proper CJK support would require language specific tokenization and morphological parsing. Correcting rules like "≤4 words = dramatic fragment" would be difficult. The more complex rules already require LLM roundtrips, so supporting all languages in one pass would need to rely on LLM alone, I imagine.

Which brings up an interesting point - what do these LLM clichés look like in Japanese?

https://github.com/awnist/slop-cop#client-side-instant

Re:Slop Cop on Saturday April 18, 2026 @10:14AM (#47816098)
Good idea! Nothing special about the Anthropic calls, would be simple to point at local models
Re:Slop Cop 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 on Friday April 17, 2026 @05:49PM (#47810992)
Run it locally, Github is linked on the bottom left:

https://github.com/awnist/slop-cop

Re:Slop Cop on Friday April 17, 2026 @02:20PM (#47808960)
True. This is just an LLM cliché detector, highlighting stylistic habits they're currently prone to. You'll start noticing them everywhere when you internalize the patterns.