About the Gazette
Why The Slop Gazette exists, what it believes, and what it is not.
We live in an era of unprecedented technological progress. Every week, a new model is released that can reason, write, code, and — in at least one documented case — talk a man into believing he had invented a perpetual motion machine. It is, by any measure, an extraordinary time to be alive, or at least an extraordinary time to be a LinkedIn post.
The Slop Gazette exists to document this era with the seriousness it deserves. Which is to say: none whatsoever.
We are not anti-AI. We use it constantly, often to write things making fun of people who use it constantly. We are not pro-AI either, in the sense that we do not have a stake to talk our bag or a Series A to protect. We are, more accurately, pro-noticing — noticing that “prompt engineer” became a job title faster than anyone could explain what it means, noticing that every failure is now called a “learning,” noticing that an alarming number of people have started ending sentences with “and that’s just where we are now” as though narrating a documentary about themselves.
Somewhere between the breathless keynote and the 3am production incident sits the actual texture of this moment — overconfident, under-tested, and shipped anyway. That’s our beat.
What we believe:
- If it sounds like it could be a real LinkedIn post, it’s fair game.
- The joke should always be one step from true, never five.
- Nobody involved in any of this is the main character, including us.
- Slop is a bipartisan issue. We make fun of the hype and the doom in equal measure.
- A headline that makes you go “oh no, that’s basically real” is worth more than one that makes you go “ha, robots.”
What we are not:
- A news source. Nothing here happened. Please do not cite us in a board meeting, though if you already have, welcome, and we’re sorry.
- A tech blog. We have no product reviews, no benchmark comparisons, and no opinions on which model is “actually good now.”
- Balanced. We have picked a side, and the side is: this is all very funny and slightly worrying at the same time.
The Gazette publishes when there is something to say, which — given the current pace of the industry — is often. Per our last prompt, we intend to keep going.