AI Slop
Why Every AI Startup Looks the Same
When a thousand companies build the same wrapper around the same three models, they converge on the same everything — including the same fragility.
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When a thousand companies build the same wrapper around the same three models, they converge on the same everything — including the same fragility.
AI launches have hardened into a genre with fixed conventions. Once you can see the template, you cannot unsee it.
AI support is sold as faster help for customers. Mostly it is cheaper deflection for companies, with the escape hatch quietly welded shut.