AI and the bland slurry problem

The internet is now mostly written by machines, study finds

The study may come as a surprise to a lot of people because quantity is not the same as visibility. The study also found that despite the volume of articles generated by AI flooding the web, most aren't good at SEO and don't show up often on Google or even in ChatGPT responses. Both tools still prioritize human-created content, so most AI-authored articles go unnoticed by everyday readers...

Apparently blind to the source of any successfully performing writing, many have turned to AI models capable of churning out articles in seconds, with churn being the appropriate description for the bland slurry that usually results. The often dull, repetitive, and dully repetitive writing isn't going to nab eyeballs organically, and Google has openly deprioritized AI content in its search algorithm.

Surely this reflects the amount of human-written material which is also bland slurry, especially the slurry churned out by mainstream media. Maybe AI systems learn their bland slurry from that.

Politics too - here in the UK most political speeches could be described as bland slurry. Some politicians seem to know it too. Note how Ed Davey uses ridiculous stunts to boost his bland slurry resilience before a Lib Dem conference. Wise move I reckon.

Or speeches by Ed "Slurry" Miliband, none of which anyone can remember. The bacon sandwich debacle was his most memorable performance and that wasn't a speaking part.

Or Calamity Keir, another bland slurry expert...

But that's enough slurry for now.