Schwartz Puts 150 XRP Bounty on AI Slop, Dares Critics to Prove They're Not Hallucinating Bots

Ripple's CTO Emeritus David Schwartz just upgraded a classic Twitter flame war into a blockchain-verified Turing test. A heated debate over a lawsuit against X Corp. drew the ire of the account SelfLegalAid, and Schwartz decided to call their—or its—bluff.

He questioned the authenticity of the counter-arguments, branding them as pure "AI slop" and openly musing whether a large language model was doing the legal heavy lifting. Onlookers agreed the retorts had that distinct, uncanny valley flavor of a neural network trying to sound convincingly outraged.

Never one to miss a chance for a cryptographically-secured experiment, Schwartz promptly placed a bounty on the truth. "I will give 15 $XRP for each prompt you share in this thread, up to 10 prompts," he declared, essentially offering a bug bounty for catching a bot.

The terms are beautifully simple: 15 XRP per verified prompt dug up from the digital ether, with a hard cap at ten finds. That's a potential 150 XRP payout, or as the degen community calls it, "gas money for the truth."

The term "AI slop" has become the battle cry of 2026 for tech execs tired of wading through algorithmically generated word soup. Schwartz's bounty implies these intricate legal takedowns might be missing a human soul, possibly being mere hallucinations or repurposed output from the usual chatbot suspects.