Freelancer vents: client work is drowning in obvious AI slop
A describes how most work coming in from clients now shows clear signs of being carelessly generated by AI. Social posts arrive as two AI-written sentences stuffed with emojis. Slide decks show up as a 2,000-word AI outline crudely pasted into a template.
Blog posts come in as 1,300 words with no strategy, no clear goal, and a vague "everyone" as the , with instructions to just fix it up. Emails arrive as four options for the same campaign that all sound identical. The most frustrating part is that the clients sending this content don't even read it themselves before passing it along for review — currently true of three of the 's clients.
"slop" has become easy to spot, and it reads as lazy and mind-numbing, obscuring whatever message the client actually wanted to send. The conclusion: polishing a rough human-written draft is still less work than fixing AI slop.
Key points
- Complaint spans multiple — social posts, slide decks, blog posts, emails — all showing signs of unreviewed AI generation
- Clients often forward AI output without reading it first; true of three current clients
- Claim that "slop" is now easy for readers to detect
- Conclusion: polishing a rough human draft beats fixing AI slop