You don’t need AI to produce slop because slop isn’t made by AI. It’s made by humans — AI is just the popular tool of choice for making it right now.

Slop existed long before LLMs came onto the scene.

It will doubtless exist long after too.

Source: In The Beginning There Was Slop

This was very clarifying. Slop is an issue of care and not the tool. This is worth remembering.