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That’s not what “slop” means. Slop is output produced by generative AI without regards to its quality, not the telltale tics that current models tend to exhibit
by skywhopper 1y ago
That’s not what “slop” means. Slop is output produced by generative AI without regards to its quality, not the telltale tics that current models tend to exhibit.
- tartoran 1y agoYep. Sanitized slop is still slop.
- Lerc 1y ago>That’s not what “slop” means It's a new term so the meaning hasn't had a chance to settle. It's generally considered to be a negative term, so there's motivation for people to expand the definition to include things that they don't like. It is much easier to subvert a category than it is to make an argument for an individual item. Imagine if people accept that falling rocks kill hundreds of people every year, and you wanted to convince them that falling cheese also kills plenty of people. It would be much easier to imply that cheese, often coming in large roundish lumps, counts as a type of rock. It stretches the definition a bit but it's still much easier to argue than the actual falling cheese argument that is your actual agenda. When the definition is new it is more malleable. Sometimes you might need a qualifier to declare it is different but imply it is essentially like the other thing. It's just a dairy-rock, or just enhanced-interrogation.
- hatthew 1y agoI've seen it used enough that it's clear to me that the implied definition is "low-quality and/or low effort AI-generated content", and the actual usage is "AI generated content that I don't like". But both of those definitions very clearly refer to the piece of content as a whole, rather than specific parts of the content.
- ottah 1y agoSlop is what you make, when I don't morally approve, or value critical nuance. WWE is slop, soap operas are slop, romance novels are slop, scifi is slop, etc.