# Slop Machine

> Source: <https://cmart.blog/slop-machine/>
> Published: 2026-07-12 08:00:00+00:00

I, a human, write every word of this blog in my own voice. Nonetheless, I built an AI Slop Machine.

([Boring! Skip to the pretty chart](https://cmart.blog/index.xml#right-now-the-market-looks-like-this))

American 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.