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sludge
Noun
Every bucket, every rebound, every screen oozed difficulty, as if each player was covered in sludge.
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Chris Branch,
New York Times,
4 June 2026
The backlash was so extensive, Gutierrez ended up backtracking on the lucrative gig entirely, in one of the clearest signs yet that AI has become toxic sludge to much of the audience Amazon is trying to woo.