[Ads-l] Slop: AI generated shoddy/false info

[Andy Bach]

First Came ‘Spam.’ Now, With A.I., We’ve Got ‘Slop’
A new term has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material… You may
not know exactly what “slop” means in relation to artificial intelligence.
But on some level you probably do. Slop, at least in the fast-moving world
of online message boards, is a broad term that has developed some traction
in reference to shoddy or unwanted A.I. content in social media, art, books
and, increasingly, in search results. Google suggesting that you could add
nontoxic glue to make cheese stick to a pizza? That’s slop. So is a
low-price digital book that seems like the one you were looking for, but
not quite. And those posts in your Facebook feed that seemingly came from
nowhere? They’re slop as well

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/style/ai-search-slop.html?searchResultPosition=4

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