Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot
What's happening
The biggest development is a simple web activity, 'Your AI Slop Bores Me,' that invites people to roleplay as chatbots: one tab is 'human' to enter a request and the other tab is 'LARP as an AI' to submit an answer, so both sides of the exchange can be human. Reddit threads add context: users complain that AI output is competent but voice is generic, and one proposed fix is 'soul.md,' a markdown persona format to give agents character. Another Reddit post debates how to define 'written by AI' when models may have altered just punctuation or a single sentence, raising the question of how much AI involvement counts as AI-written.
Why it's trending
People are testing and poking fun at bland, generic AI voice now that roleplay tools and persona formats make the problem easier to expose.
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Original sources3
- everything AI writes sounds the same. someone made a markdown file format for giving an agent an actual personality
the tell with every autonomous agent is the same. output is competent, voice is completely generic. and the two fixes both suck: finetune a model on your own writing (expensive, slow, locked to one vendor) or paste "write in a casual tone" into a system prompt, which makes you sound exactly like everyone else who typed that sentence. aeon's take on it is a thing called soul.md, basically a persona
r/artificialAug 16 - Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot
Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a request. On the other, you submit an answer. But the important thing is that there's a human on both sides of the equation. Prompts can request a response as […]
The Verge AIAug 15 - This text was all written by AI. Can you prove it?
Before you answer, what does all written by AI even mean? Did I give Claude a six-word prompt and paste the result? Did I spend an hour arguing the point and ask it to tidy the punctuation? Did it rewrite one awkward sentence? Maybe it changed one comma. How much AI is enough before the whole thing becomes AI slop? And who decides the value by counting words? I could supply one insight and let a m
r/artificialAug 15
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