Zhizhuo (Z) Zhou on X: "Why is AI slop so frustrating to read? AI writing often obscures main ideas and invents awkward phrases, making sentences more complex than necessary. Many of these slop patterns violate writing principles established in English writing books. In our benchmark, AI writ… / X
Zhizhuo (Z) Zhou on X: "Why is AI slop so frustrating to read? AI writing often obscures main ideas and invents awkward phrases, making sentences more complex than necessary. Many of these slop patterns violate writing principles established in English writing books. In our benchmark, AI writing breaks these principles far more often than human writing, with Claude Code replies by far the worst offenders. We show examples of the most common slop patterns in this thread"
Why is AI slop so frustrating to read? AI writing often obscures main ideas and invents awkward phrases, making sentences more complex than necessary. Many of these slop patterns violate writing principles established in English writing books. In our benchmark, AI writing breaks these principles far more often than human writing, with Claude Code replies by far the worst offenders. We show examples of the most common slop patterns in this thread
Why is AI slop so frustrating to read? AI writing often obscures main ideas and invents awkward phrases, making sentences more complex than necessary. Many of these slop patterns violate writing principles established in English writing books. In our benchmark, AI writing breaks these principles far more often than human writing, with Claude Code replies by far the worst offenders. We show examples of the most common slop patterns in this thread
The most jarring slop pattern of AI writing is hidden characters and actions. This happens when the main character and action of a sentence are not the subject and verb. See how the same story of "a duck (main character) walked up and asked (main action)" can be written in an unclear way. 2/5
Another common AI slop pattern is awkward and confusing word choice. AI models have a tendency to chain together nouns into unnatural expressions. Some in the wild examples include "a label's awareness entry," "vision-and-transcript pass," and "length floor drops a block." 3/5
Finally, AI writing often has no prioritization of the points it wants to make. This results in sentences that are devoid of meaning or sentences that have multiple distracting points. 4/5
This writing stuff matters because the majority of the internet we consume is AI generated. And as work, research, and technical communication become increasingly AI generated, we must make sure that AI communicates clearly in a way that us, humans, can understand. Read more about slop and explore interactive demos on our web page zonderlabs.com/slop And if you vibe with our mission, please reach out!
Have you found any mitigations? Genuinely, which ever lab solves this will have my subscription forever. Every time I have to read dense claudish it makes my eyes twitch. Too much and I start to feel nauseous