Getty Images / Witthaya Prasongsin If you can’t beat ’em, tax ’em. AI slop is as certain as government levies these days, infecting every corner of the internet and increasingly intruding on real life. It’s not going away, and surely any attempts to ban the stuff will be futile. So what should we do about it? Well, why not institute a “slop tax?” proposes technologist Mike Pepi in an essay for The Guardian. Such a tax would “restore balance to what has her