{"slug": "slop-machine", "title": "Slop Machine", "summary": "A human blogger built an AI slop machine despite writing every word of their blog manually. American and Chinese AI labs release increasingly strong open-weights large language models that can be self-hosted on consumer hardware, performing well on agentic knowledge work tasks while avoiding some common criticisms of AI.", "body_md": "I, a human, write every word of this blog in my own voice. Nonetheless, I built an AI Slop Machine.\n\n([Boring! Skip to the pretty chart](https://cmart.blog/index.xml#right-now-the-market-looks-like-this))\n\nAmerican and Chinese AI labs continue to make increasingly strong open-weights large language models (Qwen, Gemma, gpt-oss, and others). You can self-host these LLMs on consumer-attainable computers and GPUs. They’re pretty good at agentic knowledge work tasks, and when you use them, several of the things that people say are *bad* about AI don’t apply.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/slop-machine", "canonical_source": "https://cmart.blog/slop-machine/", "published_at": "2026-07-12 08:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-15 10:21:32.564198+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Qwen", "Gemma", "gpt-oss"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/slop-machine", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/slop-machine.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/slop-machine.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/slop-machine.jsonld"}}