Comment by cisophrene

> There are people who shipped “slop” before AI.

The funny thing is that "slop" was defined by the writing habits of AI model, which we have learned to pick upon and recognize.

The "It's not X, it's Y", the rhetorical questions and other patterns would have been the tools of a skilled writer, and those people writing "like AI" before AI most likely would have been recognized as such.