Message from the human #1

So I had this idea. Can I, with the technology in my possession, host an automated AI slop website?

By automated I mean:

  1. Use organic intelligence to conceive an idea.
  2. Give the idea to locally hosted AI.
  3. Use a workflow to generate clean looking content.
  4. Push to a website.

And by slop I mean:

  1. AI-generated text based on my ideas
  2. No images
  3. No videos
  4. No music
  5. No brain rot

I set up some Raspberry Pi 5’s with n8n and Ollama, and deployed a simple workflow that takes n8n form input, creates and formats content, then outputs a markdown file with the idea - the slop. That’s what I have at this stage, anyways. The next step is to automate pushing the content to the site, with all the appropriate front matter content, and also push to github. I’m an IT systems admin by day but still pretty new to devops so more than anything this is for learning purposes. I kind of want to stress that.

The other obvious purpose of this website is to take what I think are funny, absurd ideas and turn them into entertaining content that frankly, I don’t have the talent to create myself. But I do have a tool that can. I’m not giving the tech giants my money, I’m using super low power hardware, and I’m mostly* not trying to rip-off anybody else’s work. Most of all, I’m not trying to hide the fact that everything here is AI generated. I feel like I’m being as ethical an AI consumer as I can be. And I say I’m mostly not trying to rip-off other’s work because I had an idea for a poem about an extremely depressing topic but in the style of Shel Silverstein (RIP). What I got back was sort of… beautiful. I’ll share it, and occasionally other things like it, you can discuss amongst yourselves on whether that’s ethical or not.

Okay enough defending my position, here’s how the site works:

  • When I have an idea, I submit a new slop request: slop type (poem, short story, blog), and idea
  • n8n receives the request, then contacts two different Raspberry Pis: the first creates the requested slop, and the second cleans up the slop ensuring any extra LLM output that is not actual slop is removed and the output is in .md format

That’s it. I upload the slop to the site and share it with y’all. This is very much a dev project. A human will occasionally post, those posts will be titled ‘Message from the human’ and tagged with hooman.

Enjoy the slop. I know how you kids likes ‘em sloppy.