Freelancers are getting buried with ‘soulless’ AI slop cleanup: ‘It’s a shame we need to do it’
Companies increasingly rely on artificial‑intelligence tools for content creation, but the output often contains errors and low‑quality material. To address this, firms are contracting freelance workers to edit, fact‑check and polish the AI‑generated work. The freelancers say the task feels like cleaning up “soulless” output and lament having to fix mistakes instead of producing original material.