Writing
On AI slop, and removing it
Notes from building a slop detector: what the defaults are, where they come from, and how to get a generated page back under human control.
The indigo gradient, Inter, the three feature cards. AI landing pages converge because of how the models were trained, and the convergence is measurable. Here is the mechanism, and what to change first.
2026-07-23
A concrete pass for de-slopping an AI-generated page: what to check, in what order, and how to tell when you have actually changed the read of the page rather than just moved pixels.
2026-07-23
Each AI page builder has its own defaults and therefore its own tells. What each one reaches for, and the shortest edit that breaks the resemblance.
2026-07-23
The 39 slop tellsFree checker