Show HN: How AI-generated does this website look? (slopcop.adriankrebs.ch)

1 points by hubraumhugo 8d ago ↗ HN

Design slop is the feeling that tells you a website is purely AI-generated. This is an attempt to classify the patterns behind it.

Applying this scoring to recent ShowHN submissions shows that about a third of the submissions show medium to heavy design slop: https://slopcop.adriankrebs.ch/show

Is design slop bad? Not really, just uninspired. After all, validating a business idea was never about fancy design, and before the AI era, everything looked like Bootstrap.

There is a difference between trying to craft your own design and just shipping with whatever defaults the LLMs output. And the same has been the case pre-LLM when using CSS/HTML templates.

I guess people will get back to crafting beautiful designs to stand out from the slop. On the other hand, I’m not sure how much design will still matter once AI agents are the primary users of the web.

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scomag232 8d ago ↗

I like the idea - I'm not sure how useful the answer is, to your point design slop isn't bad... But it's nice to get another view on a site. FWIW I got a false negative on a site i created alongside an LLM, but to be fair, I wrote the content and curated the design. Anyway, cool idea.