Here's a brilliant neologism: "slop", for text generated entirely by LLMs and published, unwanted, on the Internet

> Watching in real time as "slop" becomes a term of art. the way that "spam" became the term for unwanted emails, "slop" is going in the dictionary as the term for unwanted AI generated content

Source: https://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1787472784106639418

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Watching in real time as "slop" becomes a term of art. the way that "spam" became the term for unwanted emails, "slop" is going in the dictionary as the term for unwanted AI generated content

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@simon It is an old term from the blog company days. They were churning out this kind of suff in like 2015 or so.

@sayrer Yeah? I've not heard it before

I think it still counts as a neologism here in terms of applying it to LLM output - "AI slop" if you like

@simon yeah, I couldn't find the reference, but they used to make fun of each other for it.

@simon @sayrer the Wiktionary entry says "(Internet slang, derogatory) Content or media of little-to-no value, especially that which is produced consistently and according to trends to satisfy a recommendation algorithm or consumerist demands."

I feel like we could add ", or generated through a LLM" at the end.

@sayrer @simon i've also heard "chum" for specifically the spammy "articles" promoted at the bottom of some news sites.
@alys @simon yes, I've heard that one too, as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumming
Chumming - Wikipedia

@alys @sayrer @simon chum feels more like it to me. To lure in the opportunistic crawlers.
@delProfundo @alys @simon as content, yes. but the thing was they would have some program write half of it, even the main one, not just the Taboola things at the bottom