The internet has a human slop problem, and AI is exposing it

Vercel's Tom Occhino, left, with Tools for Humanity's Tiago Sada at an event in San Francisco in April. Kimberly White/Getty Images for Tools for Humanity Everyone complains about AI-generated junk. But decades of sloppy human-written software may be a much bigger problem. This week's "Black October" freakout was caused by human slop, not AI. The internet has a slop problem. And for once, we can't blame AI. Most of us spend hours online every day without thinking much about the software holding everything together. We assume somebody, somewhere, has made sure it all works properly. So it proba