the term “slop” has been so successful as a way of dismissing AI content with the appropriate level of care (none, as nobody who cared made the slop) that I’m starting to see AI boosters try to change the meaning of the word. it’s important to push back when you see these information colonizers:
- insist that genuine human effort is slop because it isn’t to their taste (ie the new Mario movie)
- claim that their AI output isn’t slop because they “checked” it and found it to be particularly good
Perhaps the best words to describe the new Mario movie would be "sloppy", "slopish" or "slop-a-like".
The Guardian review of the movie says it was obviously carefully created so it can be dubbed into many languages as possible. Its plot is basically an average plot for a hero rescuing the heroine story. The reviewer said they used the word average to mean "mathematical mean" not "acceptable". Again this allows it to appeal to the widest possible global audience.
I suppose we should be grateful that a committee of people working for a film studio actually sat down and devised all of this rather than just writing a prompt for an "AI" and sitting back to collect the profits. At least humans did _something_ after all.
Its a sad state of affairs when people are working hard to deliberately create "content" which closely resembles slop. The use of the word "content" is another massive problem of course. How about we go back to using "art" instead?
@jackemled @zzt I have to disagree. A large language model doesn't understand what it's output means. It only understands that the words are statistically likely to occur in human created literature on similar topics to the prompt. The "AI" overlords tell us this the same process as how humans create art so the output of their machines is somehow art too.
The "AI" content is the lowest common denominator and statistical tricks pretending to be something it is obviously not.
I think when a humans try to make a piece of art that appeals to the largest number of people across as many cultures, demographics etc as possible they are emulating the "AI" / LMs methods. Whatever is created is stripped of all context, cultural significance and art.
Good art is different and even shocking. It's novel, not a remix of what has already been done time and time again to the point where it is meaningless.
If the whole "appeal to the widest range of people" applied in cuisine then the rancid, rotting juice in the bottom of a dumpster outside a ghost kitchen preparing delivery meals for a dozen or more restaurants with wildly different cuisines would be the food with the broadest possible appeal. That or vanilla ice-cream
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