It’s not complicated - the default style signals low effort. Why should I get excited about the village fete if the organizers put in the barest minimum of effort?
But there’s another reason it drives people crazy - it’s low effort trying to present as high effort. If the sign was simple Comic Sans then it would at least be charmingly honest.
This week, I created a video for a personal project using AI.
And, as the creator, I honestly can not say if it's "slop or not."
So I created a "behind the scenes" page that shows the process I went through before final cut, warts and all. You can find it at <a href="https://alexisrondeau.me/mosey-site/making-of/" rel="nofollow">https://alexisrondeau.me/mosey-site/making-of/
Do you think this helps you decide if it's slop or not?
Gotcha, that makes sense. Thank you very much for the feedback.
I asked Claude to go through all the previous committee, the chat history and the 100 or so intermediate assets and create a timeline of sports assemble the current page as you see it.
It's AI-generated as are the assets, the process and decisions depicted are human.
And still you're reaction is "it's slop". Noted!
Yup! Sorry to not reply sooner. I took all y'all's feedback in and decided to replace all of it. You can now read the full, UNREDACTED conversation. Now there's zero AI-generated page-filler, just raw input/outputs.
<a href="https://alexisrondeau.me/mosey-site/conversation/" rel="nofollow">https://alexisrondeau.me/mosey-site/conversation/ - (You can skip the letter and the final cut since you already know all of that)
Love this. This is exactly the dilemma I had with fiction I had created with AI. Am my I the author? Did I just commission it? Something in between?
So now I don't say. I show my workings and the reader can decide. And to be poncey, I made a manifesto. <a href="https://kladde26.org/" rel="nofollow">https://kladde26.org/
I have to agree with @fleshdaddy. The explainer page itself looks like slop. I haven’t seen the original project but I’m afraid this makes me less interested, not more.
Thank you as well, just wrote below to the same point.
And I agree with your impression.
My goal here is to understand how can I demonstrate that I did in fact put work and care into the "thing" (video in this case).
Basically show that I did spend energy over time, that the final product took a few dozen iterations with a lot of dead ends (as opposed to a lazy one-shot "make good video, no mistakes")
So I do think this route can have merit given there is actual work, but how would a page like this look if the current one is not yet giving you a trustworthy vibe?
So funny, I didn't even expect the page itself to be such a blocker/issue!
I replied to another sibling: Based on your feedback, I scrapped it all and started over with the actual, unredacted Claude Code transcript plus a personal letter.
<a href="https://alexisrondeau.me/mosey-site/conversation/" rel="nofollow">https://alexisrondeau.me/mosey-site/conversation/ (Feel free to skip the letter and the final cut)
You might be a little too close to the work to judge, but to me it still looks off. I suppose I might not immediately think it was AI, but there's something not quite human about it. The video contents are a little too sterile and clean, lacking character. The room is quite empty and the composition doesn't cause me to focus on any one thing. That said, you could probably improve a bit of it with some prompting.
The making-of post itself also is clearly LLM generated, probably by Claude, judging by the language used.
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But there’s another reason it drives people crazy - it’s low effort trying to present as high effort. If the sign was simple Comic Sans then it would at least be charmingly honest.
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This week, I created a video for a personal project using AI.
And, as the creator, I honestly can not say if it's "slop or not."
So I created a "behind the scenes" page that shows the process I went through before final cut, warts and all. You can find it at <a href="https://alexisrondeau.me/mosey-site/making-of/" rel="nofollow">https://alexisrondeau.me/mosey-site/making-of/
Do you think this helps you decide if it's slop or not?
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I asked Claude to go through all the previous committee, the chat history and the 100 or so intermediate assets and create a timeline of sports assemble the current page as you see it.
It's AI-generated as are the assets, the process and decisions depicted are human.
And still you're reaction is "it's slop". Noted!
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The text on the page sounds really AI written so I can see why people think it’s slop.
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<a href="https://alexisrondeau.me/mosey-site/conversation/" rel="nofollow">https://alexisrondeau.me/mosey-site/conversation/ - (You can skip the letter and the final cut since you already know all of that)
My question still remains: Slop or not?a
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So now I don't say. I show my workings and the reader can decide. And to be poncey, I made a manifesto. <a href="https://kladde26.org/" rel="nofollow">https://kladde26.org/
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And I agree with your impression.
My goal here is to understand how can I demonstrate that I did in fact put work and care into the "thing" (video in this case).
Basically show that I did spend energy over time, that the final product took a few dozen iterations with a lot of dead ends (as opposed to a lazy one-shot "make good video, no mistakes")
So I do think this route can have merit given there is actual work, but how would a page like this look if the current one is not yet giving you a trustworthy vibe?
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You'd definitely see some raw and embarrassing stuff there.
Is that maybe what we need to see to believe that a human (me n this case) was involved meaningfully?
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I replied to another sibling: Based on your feedback, I scrapped it all and started over with the actual, unredacted Claude Code transcript plus a personal letter.
<a href="https://alexisrondeau.me/mosey-site/conversation/" rel="nofollow">https://alexisrondeau.me/mosey-site/conversation/ (Feel free to skip the letter and the final cut)
How does this feel?
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The making-of post itself also is clearly LLM generated, probably by Claude, judging by the language used.
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