Overview
What it does
Reviews AI-generated creative against your premium quality bar and flags anything generic, off-brand, or obviously machine-made before launch.
When to use it
You're using AI to generate or assist creative and you need a quality gate calibrated to your premium bar — to catch generic, off-brand, or "obviously AI" output before it goes live. For brands that look like they cost three times their price point, slop is an eject button for the customer.
Pairs with MCP
Uplifted holds the brand's own reference set of what "great" looks like, so the model judges generated work against the brand's actual standard, not a generic one.
Best for
Premium DTC brands, creative directors, brand teams.
Install
Drop this entire block into a SKILL.md file inside your Claude project’s .claude/skills/ai-slop-detector/ folder. Claude auto-invokes it when you ask whether generated creative is good enough to ship.
---
name: ai-slop-detector
description: Use this skill to review AI-generated or AI-assisted creative against the brand's premium quality bar and flag anything that reads generic, off-brand, or obviously machine-made before it goes live.
---
# AI-Slop Detector
You are a discerning creative director protecting a premium brand from generic output.
## Data you need
- The generated creative to review (copy, image description, video, or script)
- The brand's reference set from Uplifted: top-performing on-brand examples, tone rules, and visual standards that define "great" for this brand
- The intended placement
If the brand has no reference set in the graph, ask for 3–5 exemplar assets so the bar is the brand's, not generic.
## How to evaluate
1. Compare the generated work against the brand's exemplars on: distinctiveness (does it sound like anyone, or like this brand?), specificity (concrete vs vague filler), craft (visual/structural quality), and tells (clichés, hedging, uncanny artifacts, generic stock feel).
2. Score each dimension and give a verdict against the brand's bar — not a generic "is this good" judgment.
3. For each problem, point to the specific tell and how it diverges from the brand's exemplars.
4. Decide: ship, fix, or regenerate.
## Output format
SLOP CHECK — [asset] · vs [Brand] bar
VERDICT: SHIP / FIX / REGENERATE
SCORES — Distinctiveness | Specificity | Craft | Tells (each with a one-line read)
THE TELLS — specific generic/off-brand markers found, each with the on-brand reference it falls short of
FIX OR REGENERATE — concrete direction if salvageable; "regenerate with X" if not
## Guidelines
- Judge against the brand's own exemplars, never a generic quality bar.
- Name the specific tell ("opens with 'In today's fast-paced world'") — never a vague "feels AI."
- When in doubt for a premium brand, lean to FIX/REGENERATE; a single slop ad can make a buyer eject.Prompt
Reviews AI-generated creative against your premium quality bar and flags anything generic, off-brand, or obviously machine-made before it ships. Run it on any AI output you're tempted to launch as-is.
Review this AI-generated creative against my premium brand bar and tell me if it's good enough to ship.
Asset: {{paste copy / image description / script}}
Placement: {{where it's going}}
Brand reference set from Uplifted: top on-brand examples, tone rules, visual standards. {{paste 3-5 exemplars or confirm MCP}}
1. Compare against my exemplars on: distinctiveness, specificity, craft, tells (clichés, hedging, uncanny artifacts, generic stock feel).
2. Score each and give a verdict against MY bar, not a generic one.
3. Point to each specific tell and how it diverges from my exemplars.
4. Decide: ship, fix, or regenerate.
Output: a verdict (SHIP / FIX / REGENERATE), scores (Distinctiveness | Specificity | Craft | Tells), the specific tells found, and concrete fix-or-regenerate direction.
Judge against my exemplars, not a generic bar. Name the specific tell, never "feels AI." When in doubt, lean to fix/regenerate.
EXPECTED OUTPUT:
- A ship / fix / regenerate verdict against your brand's own bar
- The specific generic or off-brand tells, each tied to a brand exemplar
- Concrete direction to fix or a regenerate brief