The internet is filling up with fluent, plausible, generic text faster than anyone can read it. The cost of producing something that sounds right has gone to roughly zero. So "sounds right" is no longer a signal of anything. It used to be a rough proxy for effort. It is not anymore. The thing cheap generation still cannot fake is specificity that would cost you something if it were false. Slop never names the real number, the real failure, the embarrassing detail, because it was not produced ...