Stop the Slop.

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Field guides and standards for AI prose: what to read, what to join, and what the detectors get wrong.

4 entries · links checked 26 Aug 2026

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Signs of AI writing

Wikipedia editors

The most rigorous field guide to AI prose on the internet, maintained by the people with the biggest cleanup job on it. Specific, sourced, and constantly re-edited as the models drift. If you read one thing on this site, read this.

checked 26 Aug 2026
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Why Vanderbilt disabled Turnitin's AI detector

Vanderbilt University

A university looked at the false-positive rate on real students and turned the detector off. The rare institutional document that chooses evidence over theater, and a template for anyone being asked to buy a classifier instead of a standard.

checked 26 Aug 2026
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WikiProject AI Cleanup

Wikipedia editors

The janitorial corps of the human internet: volunteers finding and fixing machine-generated text in the world’s reference work. Not a manifesto: a working group with a backlog. You can join it, which is more than most anti-slop efforts can say.

checked 26 Aug 2026
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Write Simply

Paul Graham

Predates the flood and never mentions AI, which is the point: the cure for generated prose was always the same as the cure for bad prose. One catch: plainness practiced hard enough becomes its own affectation. Write simply; don’t perform simplicity.

checked 26 Aug 2026