Re: AI slop or not?

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2026 at 9:56 AM Michel Verdier <listes@verdier.eu> wrote:
>
> On 2026-01-07, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
> > It would be better if AI had more clue and thus could be less
> > misleading.
>
> We can't give them more as they already can fetch so much data, such as
> this list archives. I think they need better intelligence to better use
> their data.
>
> And AI questions would use our time (personnally I only read the first 2
> paragraphs as they are so badly shaped) to generate more money for the
> owners. If they need real humans to improve their AI they should have to
> pay them (and already do that).

Hear, hear!

And we already know how Big Tech pays folks for microtasks: Amazon
Mechanical Turk, <https://www.mturk.com/>.

Jeff