@farah
This seems like a fun attitude to hold, and I pledge not to use AI slop in my DIY blogs. Cross my heart.

This "AI slop", though, what is it, exactly. I see it a lot, and everyone seems to know what it is, but not me.

I have interacted quite a bit with various chatbots, and just do not see slop.

Why is that? Is it my eyes? Is it my cognition, or lack thereof?

Or, could it be that 50 years of paying attention to NLP (natural language processing) and cybernetics generally, has left me with no apparent misunderstandings concerning what LLMs are.

Add to that an interest in English (I look words up) has left me with linguistic skills that allow me to form queries, prompts, to the chatbot which actually return what I am expecting.

And it is not slop. So what I am to do with this fact?

I post to my DIY bogs at https://chatbotics.org and https://johntinker.substack.com

Beyond that, I maintain web archives focused on genocide and fascism, but touching on many other topics as well, at https://jftf.org/web_archive

I'm thinking maybe that "slop" itself might mean language that doesn't mean much, actually, once you look at it up close. Does that seem about right?

@Davide_Sandini @farah
The brief answer is because I am expecting the chatbot to report what has already been said by others, which is what I am looking for. It is the same curiosity that brings people to libraries.

Am I convinced to know the answer where in fact I don't know? I am not asking the chatbot for answers.

I am opposed to all oppression, and am more interested in the oppressors themselves, than in the fact that they use tools. We all use tools, and we all use tools that oppressors use, so that cannot be the determining factor.

I am curious to know what your experience with chatbots has been?