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Aug 18, 2026, 9:34 AMI am *shocked* that lazy, juvenile staffers and lazy, evil lobbyists farm out this work to AI bots (likely the free tier and with equally lazy prompts).
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/17/ai-slop-lawmakers-congress-01008376
![POLITICO article screenshot. Headline: 'AI slop is swamping a House office that drafts US laws.' Subhead: 'The Office of Legislative Counsel is facing a barrage of new AI-generated bills, many of which are riddled with errors.' Hero image is a stylized black-and-white photo of the US Capitol dome with a purple-and-cyan digital glitch overlay — binary code strings, mathematical equations, error callout boxes reading 'ERROR: Undefined reference to section' and 'ERROR: Inconsistent definition,' a bracketed ellipsis '[...]', and a mock UI element showing a text field labeled 'Prompt:' with a 'Generate' button and an oversized pixelated cursor pointing at it. Caption: 'Illustration by Claudine Hellmuth/POLITICO (iStock).' Byline: 'By Owen Dahlkamp, 08/17/2026 04:45 AM EDT,' with a share icon at right. Article body begins: 'Congressional lawyers are struggling to manage a flood of legislative proposals generated using artificial intelligence tools, many of them riddled with errors and shoddy language.'](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/115/815/737/291/392/original/9af4c8adb62ce331.png)
