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A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material

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Post by gravescale »

coldblues wrote: post #143
atomicnumber3 wrote: post #133

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4chan has been calling things "slop" for literally so long I can't remember when it started. If you go to /g/ literally right now, ctrl F slop, 4 hits just on the front page previews. If anything, it originally started as calling things "goyslop", which you might be able to deduce is a portmanteau of "goyim" and "slop", the implication (given it's 4chan) of course being that it's low-quality stuff made by Jews that i…

The regular person will never get these terms right. Most people are not aware of this game of telephone they're unwillingly being part of. It will never ceases to annoy me. I still shudder at seeing "Troll" being misused.

Or hacker for that matter.

Actually "engineer" as well in countries where it's not protected. Though the confused look on my German housemate's face when an "engineer" turned up to connect the cable broadband cable to the property was pretty funny.

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Post by gravescale »

duxup wrote: post #14

Slop seems like a good term for unwanted AI generated content. But I wonder how much this is AI and how much we've sort of curated a slop pattern even before AI: - Video game tips web pages with massive chunks of text / ads before you get to the inevitable answer of "hit A when X happens". - The horrendous mess that Quora became with technically correct in some ways but also misleading answers to historical content.…

"Best X of YYYY" articles have been (mostly? fully?) automated mashups of tech specs for years too.

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Post by pavel_lishin »

mvdtnz wrote: post #200
pavel_lishin wrote: post #51

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> “Early in the Reticulum-thousands of years ago-it became almost useless because it was cluttered with faulty, obsolete, or downright misleading information,” Sammann said. > “Crap, you once called it,” I reminded him. > “Yes-a technical term. So crap filtering became important. Businesses were built around it. Some of those businesses came up with a clever plan to make more money: they poisoned the well. They began…

I'm re-reading Anathem now (my favourite book). Something I noticed on my second reading is Stephenson describes Sammann's physical appearance exactly once in the book and I must have missed it the first time around. I always pictured the Ita as wearing elaborate robes with hoods darkening their faces due to their secretive nature. But in fact he describes Sammann as looking basically just like Gilfoyle from Silicon…

I don't think I remember a description of Sammann's clothes, aside from a hat. I always pictured them as wearing something similar to what Orthodox Jews wear, except in darker colors.

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Post by SirMaster »

reportgunner wrote: post #236
SirMaster wrote: post #195

If only we had an AI that could sift through all the slop and give us only the decent information that we wanted...

Been reading too much slop lately eh ?

I just mean it seems AI are fairly good at sifting through and summarizing information, so it may be that the same AI that generate all this slop may also be able to be used to sift through all the slop to pick out only what we need and is relevant.

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Post by henriquecm8 »

brazzy wrote: post #65
henriquecm8 wrote: post #34

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I can see the use to describe AI spam, but I am starting to seeing people using it to describe anything they don't like, basically a replacement for "mid" with was highly used the last couple of years. I noticed that when some people learn a new "trendy" word, they want to use it in every possible opportunity until it loses meaning.

> basically a replacement for "mid" with was highly used the last couple of years Wot now? Somehow I managed to completely miss that. Edit: ah, seems like it's mainly a twitter thing. That explains it.

I've seen it on reddit too.

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Post by reportgunner »

SirMaster wrote: post #244
reportgunner wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Been reading too much slop lately eh ?

I just mean it seems AI are fairly good at sifting through and summarizing information, so it may be that the same AI that generate all this slop may also be able to be used to sift through all the slop to pick out only what we need and is relevant.

Sounds to me like you are trying to plug a hole by making a hole. I don't think AI is a perpetuum mobile for intellect.

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Post by lux »

saltminer wrote: post #221
lux wrote: post #79

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The endless drivel of recipe websites is another one, burying the actual recipe under an absolute mountain of slop.

LPT: Recipe Filter is shockingly good at cutting out all the filler and presenting it in an easy-to-read format https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter

Thanks for sharing!

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Post by hotdogscout »

forgotmypwlol wrote: post #229
hotdogscout wrote: post #207

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"Goyslop" as an insult is less about anti-semitism and more about how Jews are allegedly injecting anti-white multiculturalism (ex: DEI) in entertainment. So things that are woke get called goyslop (as opposed to Jewish as you imply).

Sounds pretty antisemitic, and also paranoid schizophrenic.

It is a cliche antisemitic conspiracy theory, but as an insult it is not used at things that are Jewish but things that are woke.

Didn't claim it wasn't antisemitic, it is, a lot!

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Post by unraveller »

atomicnumber3 wrote: post #133
tkgally wrote: post #17

Both HN itself and prolific HN contributor simonw get shoutouts in the article: “The term [‘slop’] has sprung up in 4chan, Hacker News and YouTube comments, where anonymous posters sometimes project their proficiency in complex subject matter by using in-group language.” “Some have identified Simon Willison, a developer, as an early adopter of the term — but Mr. Willison, who has pushed for the phrase’s adoption, sai…

4chan has been calling things "slop" for literally so long I can't remember when it started. If you go to /g/ literally right now, ctrl F slop, 4 hits just on the front page previews. If anything, it originally started as calling things "goyslop", which you might be able to deduce is a portmanteau of "goyim" and "slop", the implication (given it's 4chan) of course being that it's low-quality stuff made by Jews that i…

Harold Bloom often called Harry Potter generic "slop" upon release in the 2000s and /lit/ uses the insult the same way without any undertones. /tv/ is probably the biggest user of all the different insult 'slops since that medium is thoroughly middle of the road and they know the only fun to be had of late is in discussing how shit something is rather than consuming it.

It would be strange if the slop industry didn't try to take over the word since they exist to preempt all charges against their authority.

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Post by NikkiA »

coldblues wrote: post #131

I think it's pretty obvious that the term "slop" has food origins. When you think of "slop", you think of oily, greasy fast food, or disgusting amounts of sugar, syrup, icing, etc. The food allegory strikes again. When someone says something is "slop", they obviously mean mass-produced content that regular people willingly consume at their detriment, because it appeals to our most primitive desires. Something lacking…

I think of gears, then sometimes low-value food.
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