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Ethan Mollick (@emollick.bsky.social): It might soon be disrespectful to use a weaker AI model for producing human-facing content: “you saved 6 cents to make me read through error-filled & badly written AI slop? At least send me high quali

L2 · PractitionerOpinion & Analysis@emollick.bsky.social· 8/29/2026

Practitioners need to consider model quality tradeoffs when creating content for others.

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Ethan Mollick suggests using weaker AI models for human-facing content may soon be seen as disrespectful due to poor quality output.

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It might soon be disrespectful to use a weaker AI model for producing human-facing content: “you saved 6 cents to make me read through error-filled & badly written AI slop? At least send me high quality and low-error slop that doesn’t waste my time.”

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