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 threadDonnodubusMay 8, 2024

@simon May I suggest we stop saying "AI generated content," and start saying "prompt generated output"?

Because there is no intelligence behind it, which makes it quite the opposite of "content"...

Show threadAndrew Elder
@donnodubus @simon nope, content is just a polite term for 'filler' and can just as easily be created by a person or by software. Literature, journalism, art - only humans can do these
May 8, 2024 at 4:22amWeb