Simon WillisonMay 8, 2024

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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Show threadsayrerMay 8, 2024
@simon It is an old term from the blog company days. They were churning out this kind of suff in like 2015 or so.
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@sayrer @simon i've also heard "chum" for specifically the spammy "articles" promoted at the bottom of some news sites.
May 8, 2024 at 1:07amWeb
Show threadsayrerMay 8, 2024
@alys @simon yes, I've heard that one too, as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumming
Chumming - Wikipedia

Show threaddelProfundoMay 8, 2024
@alys @sayrer @simon chum feels more like it to me. To lure in the opportunistic crawlers.
Show threadsayrerMay 8, 2024
@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