Slop grenades are a thing. And I’ve noticed a rapid increase recently. A slop gr
By Knapman · October 1, 2026 · Curated by George's Blog
Slop grenades are a thing. And I’ve noticed a rapid increase recently.
A slop grenade is a mass of AI-generated content someone sends you without properly reading, checking or thinking it through.
It takes seconds to produce. It can take hours to unpick.
My particular favourite: the enormous list of questions from someone who doesn’t understand the subject well enough to recognise that almost all of them miss the key point.
It looks like scrutiny but it creates additional work for the recipient and doesn’t move the conversation forward.
You now have to explain why some questions are irrelevant, correct the assumptions behind others, and explain to them the questions they should have asked in the first place.
The sender has saved themselves some time but has stolen it from everyone else.
There’s a bigger warning here, too.
Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI is able to outperform humans at bureaucracy: navigating the language, rules and documents through which our institutions operate more quickly than humans. In June 2026, Argentinian President Javier Milei’s administration submitted a legislative bill to Congress proposing a new category of corporate structure known as a “non-human corporation”. Harari’s concern about granting AI legal personhood is that it would give agents, which are better at beurocracy than humans, free rein to operate within our legal and financial systems. The very systems which make society function.
It’s already a struggle to keep up with the material that colleagues produce in seconds so imagine facing an autonomous agent corporation that works around the clock and is better able to operate within all of the systems we have created.
For now, a modest request:
Before sending several pages of AI-generated content, read it and decide whether the content makes sense.
What do you think? Are you receiving slop grenades?