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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
by coldblues 2y ago
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 of substance, non-challenging material, "Roller coaster" content.
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- neogodless 2y agoThat's not what I think of. I think of the buckets of scraps you would feed a pig. The stuff the humans don't want to eat and would just as well put in the garbage bin.
- coldblues 2y agoReasonable individuals would think of the food I've described as pig feed, if not worse, of course with some hyperbole added. The reality is that most people are not knowledgeable enough to even tell "AI slop" apart from regular slop, or even human-made content. In that regard, people are eating pig feed, scraps no reasonable people would want to touch. Best example is AI generated Facebook posts with comments and likes from elderly folk or the the lower end of the bell curve.
- tuckerpo 2y agoLike most sticky internet slang terms, "slop" stems from 4chan's "sloppa", initially used to describe gross looking food, i.e. "slop of shit" shortened to "sloppa" Now used to describe anything that looks half-assed, poorly put together, etc.
- Ekaros 2y agoWhat I am thinking is bad cafeteria food. Something they slop on your plate from big container with zero ceremony. Which does not have any desirable, consistency, taste or colour...
- NikkiA 2y agoI think of gears, then sometimes low-value food.