How the Sausage is Made - Why we Hate Slop

LessWrong reports that a longtime Reddit contributor was recently banned after sharing a satirical song created with AI tools like Suno and Claude. He spent weeks producing the track and a short video, yet the community dismissed it as low‑quality "slop" and removed him from several subreddits. Reddit, a large online discussion platform, often reacts sharply to AI‑generated content that isn’t user‑authored. The author reflects that we readily consume AI output we generate ourselves, but resist the same output when it comes from others, a bias he likens to disliking someone else’s farts, and urges a rethink of how we judge effort versus result.

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