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Very interesting tbh! + I have never heard from kagi until now & I just decided to check out following link

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/why-pay-for-search.html

Now tell me why the whole article has been written by AI? It's literally AI slop itself

> # The hidden price tag

> In 2022, advertisers spent $185.35 billion to influence your search results. By 2028, they'll spend $261 billion. This isn't just numbers - it's an arms race for your attention.

> Every dollar spent makes your search results:

> More cluttered with ads

> Harder to navigate

> Slower to deliver answers

> More privacy-invasive





I wrote the article personally, before LLMs were a thing. And you have git history of changes as our entire documentation is open source. People usualy cite it as a well written page.

What makes you think this is slop?

Also, I think many people use the term "slop" and "AI was involved" interchangeably, but to me, they're not synonymous. To me, writing blog posts with the help of AI is fine (grammar checks, structural help etc.) while auto-generated content generation w/o human oversight is not.


The negated sentence structure "X isn't just Y -- it's Z" directly followed by a list of 3 or 4 bullet points. Maybe the bullet points are a heavy reach but nobody can tell me otherwise of the former.

I agree on your first part! The whole article does read like slop tho; it's more like "Human was involved" here


AI writes like that because it was trained on the internet, which by now is mostly marketing copy.

Your heuristic isn’t just coarse — it’s misleading.



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