AI slop is eating the world. Trust is the first casualty
Slop.
The word that people have settled on, and it fits.
LinkedIn posts that say nothing.
Investor decks assembled from prompts.
Sales outreach that feels personalized but went to thousands of people.
Conference presentations that look polished but collapse when someone asks a substantive question.
Nobody in a position of power seems to want to say this clearly, so here it is: we are making it ourselves.
People racing to scale content with AI tools are burning through the one thing that makes any of this worth doing, which is the reasonable expectation that when a person puts their name on something, a person thought about it.
When the thinking did not happen, the name is borrowed credibility, and audiences tend to feel the difference.
A denial of service attack on professional attention Think about what high-volume, low-signal communication actually does to the people on the receiving end.
It is a denial of service attack.
Done at scale, they do not just waste time.
They degrade the channel for everyone trying to use it honestly.
Trust in professional life is not a soft value.
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