Bald and Bloviating

← Bald and Bloviating6 Sept · 48 min

Creators! Show Yourselves: The Antidote to Bot Slop is YOU

Creators! Show Yourselves: The Antidote to Bot Slop is YOU6 Sept48 min

Mookie flies solo on Bald and Bloviating today, working through something that's been eating at him: a fellow Substack writer he respected has started churning out essays that are, unmistakably, AI-generated. Not subtly, and with tons of tells: the fragments, the "not X instead Y" cadence, the churn producing five two-thousand-word pieces in a matter of days, and in a voice that's nothing like the writer Mookie actually knows. His point isn't to shame the guy, or to play bot police, sin...