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I have been making AI slop and you should too
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- The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography
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- Nov 17, 2025
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- 1136
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Summary
AI Slop: An Experiment in Discovery Solo Episode Reflection: I'm back behind the mic after about a year-long break. Producing this podcast takes more time than you might imagine, and I was pretty burnt out. The last year brought some major life events, including moving my family back to New Zealand from Denmark, dealing with depression, burying my father, starting a new business with my wife, and having a teenage daughter in the house. These events took up a lot of space. The Catalyst for Return: Eventually, you figure out how to deal with grief, stop mourning the way things were, and focus on the way things could be. When this space opened up in my life, AI came into the picture. AI got me excited about ideas again because for the first time, I could just build things myself without needing to pitch ideas or spend limited financial resources. On "AI Slop": I understand why some content is called "slop," but for those of us who see AI as a tool, I don't think the term is helpful. We don't refer to our first clumsy experiments with other technologies—like our first map or first lines of code—as slop. I believe that if we want to encourage curiosity and experimentation, calling the results of people trying to discover what's possible "slop" isn't going to help. My AI Experimentation Journey My goal in sharing these experiments is to encourage you to go out and try AI yourself. Phase 1: SEO and Content Generation My experimentation began with generating SEO-style articles as a marketing tool. As a dyslexic person, I previously paid freelancers thousands of dollars over the years to help create content for my website because it was too difficult or time-consuming for me to create myself. Early Challenges & Learning: My initial SEO content wasn't great, and Google recog…