A field guide · written badly on purpose

Spot the slop.

AI slop is text that sounds finished and says nothing. This page explains it the only honest way: by committing every offense as it goes.

North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys
CLE · Artificial Intelligence & the Prosecutor
Exhibit A · the introduction

Sixty-five words. Zero facts.

It reads like a real opening paragraph. Scroll to run the slop detector over it.

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Understanding AI Slop: A Comprehensive Guide 🚀

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape,Throat-clearing AI slop has emerged as a transformative force that is reshapingInflated stakes the way we think about content. It's not just text; it's a rich tapestryNot X, it's Y of words, woven together with purpose, passion, and absolutely no information.Rule of three As legal professionals navigate this complex and ever-changing terrain,Filler it is crucial to delve into the multifaceted natureDelve of slop. Let's dive in! 💡Fake pep

Specific facts, names, dates or citations in this paragraph: none.
The ten tells

Every example is also the crime.

Each card below explains a tell of AI slop while doing it. Open a card to see what's going wrong and what a person would have written.

Tell no. 4 · the dangerous one

Nine of these are embarrassing. One gets you sanctioned.

Slop's worst habit is inventing authority that looks exactly like the real thing: a plausible case name, a real reporter, a confident parenthetical. It is formatted perfectly. It does not exist.

Draft brief · Section II.B · AI-assisted

As the court firmly held in State v. Chatbot, 412 N.C. 999 (2023), a citation doesn't have to exist to be formatted beautifully.

No such case
This case does not exist.
Formatting is not verification.

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Your turn

Slop, or a person?

Six sentences. Some came from a prosecutor's desk, some came from a machine trying to sound like one.

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    The slop machine

    Make it longer. Make it worse.

    Type something a prosecutor would actually say. The machine adds everything slop adds, and nothing else.

    Your sentence, improved beyond recognition, will appear here.
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    The cure

    Four habits that keep slop out of your filings.

    In conclusion

    If it could be about anything, it's about nothing.

    I hope this helps! Let me know if you'd like me to expand on any of these points! 😊