A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material
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Re: A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material
#2Is slop new or is it just a continuation of SEO, blogspam, and “content”? I love that we have a new better word that captures the nuance, but it doesn’t feel like a new phenomena.
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#4Re: A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material
#5"Slop" is a general term, you can create slop as a human, for example YouTubers who upload daily talking about the latest Twitter drama they are usually referred to as making slop, especially if they have a main channel where they upload high quality content. It's not a new term and it has little to do with AI by itself.
Re: A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material
#6tldr: "slop" is defined as unwanted AI content
Re: A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material
#7"Slop" is a general term, you can create slop as a human, for example YouTubers who upload daily talking about the latest Twitter drama they are usually referred to as making slop, especially if they have a main channel where they upload high quality content. It's not a new term and it has little to do with AI by itself.
I think an important difference between Youtubers putting out low-quality videos is that it still takes them at least as much time to generate the video as the video's run-time - same with pointless self-promo blogposts, unhinged LinkedIn posts, etc.
With generative A.I., this kind of slop can be pumped out at an industrial scale.
It'd be like equating your neighbor dumping a bag of garbage on the roadside, with the industrial plant down the road pouring out thousands of gallons of toxic waste per minute into a river.
Re: A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material
#8Is slop new or is it just a continuation of SEO, blogspam, and “content”? I love that we have a new better word that captures the nuance, but it doesn’t feel like a new phenomena.
Unlike slop, SEO content can't be totally off-base, or search engines will rank it low. The ecosystem keeps it annoying but consistent with the facts, at least.
Re: A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material
#9Is slop new or is it just a continuation of SEO, blogspam, and “content”? I love that we have a new better word that captures the nuance, but it doesn’t feel like a new phenomena.
I'd argue that the strange Gemini answers that were making the rounds of social media are more absurd than what you would see in regular blogspam. But again, they're extremes (and some of the reported screenshots were even fake).
On the other hand, there's indeed a lot of popular human-made fake content lately, especially in TikTok, like fake guitar playing and fake nonsensical DIY videos. So it's not an AI exclusive phenomena.
Re: A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material
#10Is slop new or is it just a continuation of SEO, blogspam, and “content”? I love that we have a new better word that captures the nuance, but it doesn’t feel like a new phenomena.
I'd guess both: a continuation and its own new flavor.
It's better than what automated scripts could produce and cheaper than human generated copy. It has expertise of the whole Internet and its reasoning capabilities are often worse than those of a three year old.
Similar for sure, and yet something different.