People say they hate AI slop — but do you really?

This story was not written by AI, to clear things up (Picture: Getty/Metro)

🤖 Beep? It’s not just beep—it’s boop.

Despite all the dead giveaways – the em dash, the ‘it’s not x, it’s y’ line, the emoji – this wasn’t AI-generated. A boring old human wrote it.

AI-generated writing is everywhere these days. In emails, award-winning books, pub menus and a surprising number of LinkedIn posts.

But a new study has suggested that people struggle to tell the difference between stories written by a human and those cobbled by AI.

In fact, as the study’s senior author tells Metro