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

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Thanks, Andy, for providing more evidence that this new sense of the
word "slop" is interesting.
Here is a link to the message I sent to the list last month:

Word: Slop: Low quality content generated by an artificial intelligence system
https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2024-May/165395.html

Garson

On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 10:09 AM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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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