Know slop when you see it
Short, honest guides to the AI-generated web: what the terms actually mean, the tells that give a generated site away, and how to check any of it yourself. No scan required, though there's always the ten-second version.
How to tell if a website is AI-generated
The ten tells that give away a vibe-coded site, from builder fingerprints to template layouts, and how to check each one by hand in under a minute.
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What is AI slop?
The meaning of the term the whole internet suddenly needed: where it came from, the three kinds of slop, and why the dividing line is effort, not AI.
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What is vibe coding?
Coding by vibes instead of by hand: who coined it, why it exploded, the spectrum from AI-assisted craft to prompt-and-deploy slop, and how to spot it.
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Was this site built with v0, Lovable, or Bolt?
AI site builders sign their work. The exact fingerprints v0, Lovable, Bolt, Base44 and Replit leave in the source code, and how to find them with Ctrl+F.
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