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How to Identify AI slop literature and videos

thiago1v1s1

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Greetings,

Recently I've been reading a lot of content, and being really honest, most stuff you find outside the WF is AI Slop made to sell pdfs for 40 USD.

With that in mind, I've been evaluing them by few standards ( it is not fail safe, but worked in like 75% of the time):

1- Who is the author?
Since times immemorial we have been people selling books under a famous person name. But here is not the case. People that makes AI slop are so lazy that they usually don't put an author's name, neither use their names.
Most of the time, they use their AI generated YT channel's name or just don't give authorship to no one.
That being said, checking is(are) the author(s) will give you a hint about the procedence of the book.

2-Check the book cover's image.
Most AI slop uses an "encyclopedia cover", but you can pretty much see that it seems unnatural to that kind of knowledge the book covers. Others may use a variety of AI generated artworks + "medieval-like letters".

3- PDF only.
Not every book that is available only in PDF is a Slop, but every Slop is only available in PDF.
Nobody will print a book written by an AI thinking it'll sell well at the physical market.

4- Not available on Amazon, or only available at their own websites.
That is a red flag for a lot of consumables, tho. In this case is even more expressive.

5- Dark YT channels.
Yes, occult channels are small. But every good occult/wiccan/pagan channel i saw shows their face. Not in every video, but in a couple of them.
Also, most "meditation" videos are swapping from the creative commons straight to the AI generated music", meaning that even that calm 120hz music you use in your rituals might be AI slop.

The idea here is not point fingers like: You don't have a printed version, you're slop!
But is to identify a book and see different combinations of those criteria and judge yourself.

and i hope this helps you guys!
 

Zelator2148

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Greetings,

Recently I've been reading a lot of content, and being really honest, most stuff you find outside the WF is AI Slop made to sell pdfs for 40 USD.

With that in mind, I've been evaluing them by few standards ( it is not fail safe, but worked in like 75% of the time):

1- Who is the author?
Since times immemorial we have been people selling books under a famous person name. But here is not the case. People that makes AI slop are so lazy that they usually don't put an author's name, neither use their names.
Most of the time, they use their AI generated YT channel's name or just don't give authorship to no one.
That being said, checking is(are) the author(s) will give you a hint about the procedence of the book.

2-Check the book cover's image.
Most AI slop uses an "encyclopedia cover", but you can pretty much see that it seems unnatural to that kind of knowledge the book covers. Others may use a variety of AI generated artworks + "medieval-like letters".

3- PDF only.
Not every book that is available only in PDF is a Slop, but every Slop is only available in PDF.
Nobody will print a book written by an AI thinking it'll sell well at the physical market.

4- Not available on Amazon, or only available at their own websites.
That is a red flag for a lot of consumables, tho. In this case is even more expressive.

5- Dark YT channels.
Yes, occult channels are small. But every good occult/wiccan/pagan channel i saw shows their face. Not in every video, but in a couple of them.
Also, most "meditation" videos are swapping from the creative commons straight to the AI generated music", meaning that even that calm 120hz music you use in your rituals might be AI slop.

The idea here is not point fingers like: You don't have a printed version, you're slop!
But is to identify a book and see different combinations of those criteria and judge yourself.

and i hope this helps you guys!
Just one observation. I presently have five ebooks published under my own name on Lulu as "pdf only." (They're all organized-by-topic compilations of my first seven years of blog writing that is available for free on my blog but scattered across roughly 2,000 posts.) I've been asked for paper versions but the amount of work to prep them for hard-copy printing is far more than I want to take on. None of my work is AI-generated (which didn't exist when I wrote the material).
 

FraterLIFT

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I'm not sure why there's backlash against AI in writing; ultimately, a human must inspire, guide, curate, and edit AI's work. All AI really does is shorten completion time. I use AI a lot in my job; very little media today doesn't. Use a smartphone...you're using AI; watch Netflix or buy off Amazon, you're using AI. Your browser uses AI; your mama uses AI (kidding, I have no idea). Did you take a picture with your smartphone? You used AI, unless you're using a phone from 10 years ago. There is no way I would publish anything without an AI grammar edit, mostly because I suck at spelling and grammar. As I type this, my AI underlines my poor spelling and grammar and has corrected me at least 10 times...LOL..Thank you, AI.

The idea that something can be produced or reproduced in an electronic format without AI is a stretch. Calling it Slop demeans the efforts of the humans who inspired the idea, taught it, programmed it, built the infrastructure, promoted it, etc. AI is far from perfect, really far, but Slop might be a bit harsh.

One person's opinion...
 
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