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"slop" is not a new term, it has been used for years to describe low quality content that is produced consistently and according to trends and it's not strictl
by GaggiX 2y ago
"slop" is not a new term, it has been used for years to describe low quality content that is produced consistently and according to trends and it's not strictly related to AI. My guess is that some people who are not familiar to internet slang, saw the word "slop" being used when talking about AI and thought it's a new word used for AI generated content.
- Bluestein 2y ago(Indeed the term itself dates back to 1350-1400 in middle English: - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/slop https://www.dictionary.com/browse/slop ... but I think the usage is new. Either way my thinking is that it is beneficial for a specific word for the concept of "unwantes AI generated content" to exist, as a thing, so we can discourse about it ...)
- Symbiote 2y agoIt's perfectly reasonable for a mainstream newspaper to cover a recent technical term. It's not yet in published dictionaries, and was only added to Wiktionary in January.
- stonogo 2y agothe word "spam" similarly existed before the advent of unsolicited commercial email. the meanings of words change all the time.
- quantified 2y agoWhat do you recall it meaning? I didn't hear it used for anything besides a specific brand of canned meat.
- stonogo 2y agoThat's exactly what it meant. Its use to describe UCE derived from a Monty Python sketch where a restaurant customer was trying to order food without it, but it was included in every menu item.
- quantified 2y agoTechnically, all proper names may be words, so yes you were/are correct in that sense. It's sort of unconventional, like saying that "Elon" is a word. The way you phrased it ("word" vs "name"), I interpreted as having a non-brand-name meaning.
- simonw 2y agoThe word "spam" existed long before it came to also mean unwanted marketing content.
- quantified 2y agoPrior to meaning unwanted marketing content, it was the name of a canned meat. At least in the Anglosphere there wasn't any other widespread common meaning for it.
- d3w3y 2y agoThere was a blog post I read on HN that was about how existing large publications who were threatened by the internet (think big magazines) began to churn out low-quality content that will allow their sites to dominate search rankings despite offering less value than higher-quality posts from small blogs. I think the blog post was from some kind of home air filter review site or something, but I can't find it....