I’m getting really tired of AI slop (as most people). Not AI itself. AI slop. There’s a difference. AI can be incredibly useful. It can help you research faster, organize your thoughts, analyze information, brainstorm ideas, write code, build systems, and do a dozen other things that used to take hours. I use AI. I like AI. I think it’s one of the most useful tools we’ve had in a long time. But somewhere along the way, people decided that instead of using AI to help them think, they could just stop thinking altogether. And now we’re drowning in the same five ideas rewritten 47 different ways. Open LinkedIn. “Here are 5 things successful people do every morning.” Scroll. “Here are 7 lessons I learned building my business.” Scroll. “Stop trading time for money.” Scroll. “AI isn’t going to replace you. Someone using AI will.” Scroll. “Consistency beats motivation.” Scroll. Congratulations. You’ve just consumed the same content six times, written by six different people, using six different AI-generated personalities. And somehow everyone thinks they’re being original. They aren’t. They’re regurgitating regurgitation. Someone publishes an idea. Someone else feeds that idea into ChatGPT. ChatGPT rewrites it. Someone turns that rewrite into a post. Someone else sees that post and asks AI to create a post about the same topic. Then another person asks AI to make it “more controversial.” Pretty soon, the original idea has been passed through so many layers of synthetic mayonnaise that nobody even remembers where it came from. That’s how you end up with an internet full of content that sounds polished but says absolutely nothing. And the problem isn’t AI. The problem is outsourcing your brain. AI doesn’t know what you believe. It doesn’t know what pissed you off yesterday. It doesn’t know the stupid mistake you made three years ago that cost you $20,000. It doesn’t know the conversation you had with a client that completely changed how you run your business. It doesn’t know the weird thing you discovered while trying to solve a problem nobody else seemed to have.