AI Slop Detection

“I think for the most part those came from say communications from on high. Kind of the organizational level communications that would go out that you could tell there's no thought other than a general direction of I want to communicate this to a whole lot of people in this particular organization and do it. And I think the takeaway I get from that is just like okay, I think it kind of diminishes the impact of the message going forward, is like if it becomes apparent that there is very little of your own thought other than a general direction then it's just, can't really ignore it necessarily but it doesn't have the same impact.”

“if you just take things as they are and not try to refine them, yeah, I mean it's easy to create an interface that's essentially AI slop. Yeah, it looks beautiful and it follows some patterns, but it doesn't necessarily provide anything new and it might not relate to the end user. So it might follow all the rules but miss some key points that are hard to define.”

“It's frustrating. Yeah, I think it's frustrating because I think some people have just been more trusting of it. And yeah, kind of phoning it in. There have been maybe a couple times where I've actually called out like, I don't want to know what Claude thinks about this. I just want to know what you think. Like, here's why this doesn't make sense. Tell me what you think. How does that go over when you say that? I think I've received silence as a response to that before, but I feel like because we've had some more visible failures with sort of letting AI move too quickly, that's been happening less. So we've had more, I think we're more aware of where it can fail if we don't watch it in our process.”

“Using it for my personal objectives at work is fantastic and everyone does it. Which I will say is kind of a drawback, though, because supervisors are also doing it to give feedback. And I'm like, is that feedback something that you truly think, or are you getting it from the tool?”

“Like, is their summary similar to what I came up with? Or like grouping stickies together. I still like to do that manually. But when it comes to. Oh, the other thing is transcripts. In Microsoft Teams, we use the AI notes and transcripts that way. Not the best, but also better than nothing. Being able to just take a lot of information and pull it together into a summary is the biggest win for me, because I used to spend days on synthesizing research data, or recording, you know, I used to sift through recordings and take notes and all that. But I think that's the biggest win overall. But like using it for my personal objectives at work is fantastic and everyone does it. Which I will say is kind of a drawback, though, because supervisors are also doing it to give feedback. And I'm like, is that feedback something that you truly think, or are you getting it from the tool?”

“You can tell, I mean, you can tell if it's Figma Make or not, versus our own design system.”

“In my previous job I had a few direct reports, and they were always fresh grads. This last round, like 20 to 22, was the age range. And I could see every email I was getting was written by AI. I mean, no filter. Just em dashes and weird bolding, you know, just that weird overvalidating language.”