Slop Machine

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.

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.