# Slop patrol: the robot got a job
**Published:** 2026-09-25
**Author:** Alessandro Pogliaghi
**URL:** https://apogliaghi.com/2026/09/shortless-slop-patrol/
A small Safari extension, Jev, three probabilities and a bouncer.
This is starting off as, possibly, one of the lamest jokes ever but I'll try to keep it together.
## jev
If you have been around X a bit or similar (sorry about that), you are probably familiar with `jev` and the hype around all of that other train.
My feed won't shut up about a model that won't talk, funny.
I shipped already [Shortless](https://shortless.app) and wanted to slap `jev` into it, as cool kids usually do 😂 --> Slop Patrol was born 👮
Slop patrol looks for evidence AI-sloppiness on your feed, given the latency requirement it doesn't do anything too fancy (i.e. doesn't analyze the video itself) but it's a step up from the naive approach of trusting Big G with their "AI content" labels they sometimes slaps on videos.
The clanker has a fairly limited job description.
## sys design
{{< patrol-diagram kind="route" >}}
The usual Shorts filter still runs locally, Slop patrol is asynchronous.
## you can have three questions
for jev I used three `noul` (bernoulli) questions and each returns a probability for a yes/no outcome.
questions are:
- **Low value:** does the video metadata offer real proof of filler stuff or low-quality/info output?
- **Substantive:** does it suggest useful stuff or something along those lines?
- **Insufficient evidence:** is the available text too little or ambiguous to make the call? just bail out broski
Nothing too complicated here.
## follow the slop patrol around
[shortless.app](https://shortless.app) shows actual near-real-time stats if you'd like to see how it is chugging along.
The robot finally got a job. It does not get the final word. 👋
The robot finally got a job. It does not get the final word. 👋