Every article isn't AI written. If it is AI written, it is worth calling it out to save others time.

On the other hand, I get mentally exhausted reading AI slop over and over again.

My brain can't help itself in looking for AI tells and gauging if writing sounds like AI or not.

Then once it latches onto the idea that the writing is probably AI, then it feels like half my brain is just reading the text looking for the AI smells.

Calling it "AI smells" like "code smells" might actually be what is going on in my brain, and I start code reviewing it at that level rather than reading it for what it does.

I really would prefer people not just post slop. I don't care if you use it to clean up your own writing, but don't just let it rip.

Well, I appreciate the advance warning, so I want to hear it.

I want to hear about it, and I am tired of seeing slop text over and over and over again on every thread.

It's not AI tone, that's not a thing, it's just low quality text.

You're right that nobody wants to hear it, but I think that's because nobody wants to find out over and over and over that every thread is AI generated. Not because when something is AI generated, they wouldn't like a heads up so they can find something else.

For example, I've had people thanking me for pointing out LLMish later in an article when it's not as obvious at the beginning. It saves the time of thinking the article is manually written when it'll later turn out to be AI instead.

Note that I don't necessarily have anything against AI in particular, but rather the chronic lack of information density typical of LLM-generated articles. Some articles that were LLM-assisted are still information-dense enough to keep me satisfied.