A1 Level – Elementary
1. Do you use AI tools?
2. What is a bad story?
3. Do you trust all information?
4. What is a mistake?
5. Do you think machines can write well?
6. What is a messy picture?
7. Do you like simple answers?
8. What is a fake thing?
9. Do you think AI is too fast?
10. What is a lot of garbage?
11. Do you check the source?
12. What is a human job?
13. Do you think AI slop is a big problem?
14. What are three types of AI content?
15. Do you think humans are better than AI?
A2 Level – Pre-Intermediate
1. What is the difference between good AI content and “AI slop”?
2. Why is AI slop suddenly filling the internet?
3. What are the good things and bad things about quick, mass-produced content?
4. How can a person recognize AI slop in a news article?
5. Should all AI-generated content be clearly marked?
6. Why is it important to have human editors check AI work?
7. Do you think AI slop affects children’s learning?
8. What is the purpose of deliberately making low-quality content?
9. How does AI slop affect the ability of a person to find real information?
10. What is the difference between automation and creative help?
11. Do you think human jobs are threatened by AI slop?
12. What are the problems when the internet becomes full of poor quality text?
13. When is the best time to stop relying on an AI tool?
14. What are two industries affected by AI slop?
15. How does the drive for clicks and views lead to AI slop?
B1 Level – Intermediate
1. What are the rules for politely correcting a co-worker who uses unverified AI content?
2. How does the monetization of quick content affect the quality of online writing?
3. Should the government ban the use of AI to create fake product reviews?
4. What is the difference between original human art and AI-generated image slop?
5. Do you believe that AI slop is damaging the integrity of the internet?
6. What are the challenges of legally protecting human artists from mass-produced AI content?
7. How does the focus on speed affect the ethical use of AI tools?
8. What is the idea of “information overload”?
9. Is it fair or unfair when some people use AI to create content for money while putting no effort in?
10. How does a lack of critical thinking skills make people vulnerable to AI misinformation?
11. What are the steps for properly verifying an image that may be AI slop?
12. What is the value of teaching people how to identify deepfakes?
13. Should public media highlight the dangers of relying on unverified AI information?
14. What are the reasons why some companies choose to use AI slop over human writers?
15. How does the cost of producing AI slop compare to the cost of human labor?
B2 Level – Upper-Intermediate
1. What are the social pressures to use AI to keep up with the demand for content?
2. What are the moral problems when AI slop contains harmful stereotypes or false information?
3. How does constant exposure to low-quality content affect people’s expectations for writing and art?
4. Should technology platforms be legally required to filter out low-quality AI-generated content?
5. Analyze the psychological effect of confronting the idea that creative work can be automated and cheaply produced.
6. Who is responsible for maintaining the quality standards of online information?
7. What is your view on the practice of using AI slop to generate university essays?
8. Evaluate the role of large technology companies in the proliferation of low-quality AI tools.
9. How does the concept of “garbage in, garbage out” apply to the training of AI models?
10. Discuss the concept of “content farming” using AI slop.
11. What are the problems with having very different rules for copyright protection of AI-generated content?
12. What are the legal differences between plagiarism and using AI to generate text?
13. Do you agree that the purpose of AI slop is mainly to reduce labor costs?
14. What steps should be taken to ensure that ethical AI is developed and used responsibly?
15. How does the rapid development of AI challenge the definition of “authorship”?
Thought-provoking ESL lesson plan for C1 learners – “Wading Through AI Slop”
C1 Level – Advanced
1. Is it fair that the economic model of the internet often rewards quantity (AI slop) over quality (human work)?
2. What is the right way to think about a content creator’s moral duty to produce authentic, human-verified information?
3. How do the platform’s algorithms influence the type of quickly generated, sensational AI slop that becomes mainstream?
4. When should the government consider mandatory audits of AI models to ensure they do not produce harmful misinformation?
5. What are the moral questions when we talk about using AI slop to replace the creative work of artists and writers?
6. How does the focus on cheap, quick content affect the long-term, necessary investment in human journalism and research?
7. Discuss the impact of mass AI slop production on the ability of search engines to provide accurate results.
8. How should leaders use tax incentives to promote human-generated, high-quality content?
9. What is the idea of “Turing Test” failure when the average consumer cannot distinguish human from machine?
10. What are the long-term effects on society when the internet is filled with auto-generated, generic content?
11. What are the difficulties when courts try to decide if a piece of AI slop is defamatory or libelous?
12. How does the search for total convenience conflict with the ethical need for authentic, human-created content?
13. Do you agree that the most important thing is the equal right of human creators to earn a living wage?
14. What are the simple moral rules a person should follow when they use AI to create content they claim is their own?
15. Should the government set a legal minimum for the amount of verifiable fact-checking required for all online news?
C2 Level – Proficiency
1. What is the real difference between human creativity and the highly sophisticated pattern replication of AI?
2. Debate the idea: Should we completely ban the use of generative AI tools for commercial purposes?
3. How does the concept of “knowledge” change when the internet is dominated by self-referential, machine-generated falsehoods?
4. What laws or rules are needed to control how technology platforms monetize AI-generated content?
5. How do historical views of propaganda and mass media affect modern public distrust of AI slop?
6. How can communities maintain shared factual truth when misinformation is easy and cheap to produce?
7. Argue the point that humans should stop all attempts to regulate AI slop and focus on improving critical thinking skills.
8. What protection should laws give to employees who are replaced by cheaper, faster AI tools?
9. How can we stop the problem of using the argument of “efficiency” to justify the mass pollution of the internet?
10. What did old thinkers say about authenticity, originality, and the value of human intellect that is still relevant today?
11. What will happen to the need for human journalists if AI can perfectly generate and verify all news content?
12. How do people use the idea of “democratization of content” to avoid discussing the ethical problems of AI slop?
13. How does the experience of a major AI misinformation crisis improve a person’s digital literacy?
14. What is the power of a collective movement to demand that platforms prioritize human content in search results?
15. If scientists could create a perfect, non-bias AI that only produces truth, how would that fundamentally change human debate?
