Hank Green

I think it's because it's easy to make.

Like when I look at a website that was made with Lovable and it's like a good functional website, I don't think that's slop.

And the reason is because there's a bunch of human decisions that went into it, and there's a bunch of hard work that went into it.

They didn't go into, like, the lines of code, but they went into the design, into imagining the user interface, into imagining user behavior, into imagining, like, how to best get an idea into my head.

This was a tool used to aid human creation.

And...

And then when I think about what Slop is, it's like, oh, you know, you like typed a prompt in and then you posted it.

And now there's a video of a baby saving a cat from a bear.

And if people think that's real and, you know, all you did is say, make a video of a baby saving a cat from a bear, make it look like it came from a ring cam.

And then you've got 10 million views on Reels.

Like that's Slop because it's low effort.

And why?

One of the craziest, so remember when OpenAI first launched its image generator and it was making these like, it was always using the same font and it was kind of yellow and the characters all look the same.

You became able to identify what those looked like three in.

You saw three of them and you were like, now every time I see one of those forever, I will know what it looks like.

I don't know if Digital God is coming, but until he does,

I think that that's going to be kind of true.

I was just listening to like some AI guys who are like in the coding world talking about this on a podcast.

And one of them was like, what do you think that is like a thing to be doing now if you're in tech?

And they were like, well, you know, like what we know is that like plumbers jobs are safe.