What's this about?
Simon Willison has stopped reading his replies: the worst AI slop, he says, is the kind that asks questions — automated accounts engineered to bait a busy expert into spending mental energy answering something nobody wants to know.
What exactly makes questions the worst form?
Statements can be skimmed; a question invokes the reflex to answer. Engagement-bot authors discovered this, so reply sections now farm attention from exactly the people whose attention is scarcest.
Why is this worth noting?
When high-signal people abandon their own reply sections, the public conversation loses its correction layer — a small, concrete casualty of AI-generated engagement farming, reported by one of its most-farmed targets.