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As AI rapidly generates content, the issue of accountability is becoming increasingly critical. While human creators are subject to legal and reputational repercussions for producing defamatory or substandard work, AI systems themselves currently face no such consequences. To mitigate the proliferation of low-quality, AI-generated material – dubbed ‘slop’ – a proposal gaining traction suggests mandatory declarations identifying content as either human-created or AI-generated. This would require individuals to publicly vouch for the origin of the content, thereby incentivizing accuracy and promoting greater transparency. The discussion originated on a Reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1mkh2pv/in_b4_the_slopocalypse/