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"Slop" in English means "liquid junk, rubbish, tripe". No need to call for Merriam Webster's help. The point is that AI can produce slop (as people do, too), b
by throw310822 10mo ago
"Slop" in English means "liquid junk, rubbish, tripe". No need to call for Merriam Webster's help.
The point is that AI can produce slop (as people do, too), but it's just silly to imply that everything it can produce is slop. That's just lazy, sloppy thinking.
- steve1977 10mo agoSure. I'm fully aware that AI can be useful, especially once we move past LLMs. However, I do think that the majority (or mainstream) use of GenAI today is indeed not very useful or even harmful. And I do think that something like railroads are more useful by orders of magnitude.
- matkoniecz 10mo ago> but it's just silly to imply that everything it can produce is slop that is why people use slop qualifier, rather than not using qualifier