> The problem isn't that AI slop is doing something new. Phishing, blogspam, time wasting PRs, website scraping, etc have all existed before. The problem is that AI makes all of that far, far easier.

The term I like is that AI has _industrialised_ those behaviours. While native hunted buffalo, it wasn't destructive until it was industrialised [1] it that it became truly destructive.

[1] https://allthatsinteresting.com/buffalo-slaughter

Well they hunted buffalo for feeding and pelt, the slaughter was done to make them hungry.