‘Slop’ as a Neologism for Mindlessly Spewed AI-Generated Content
Simon Willison:
I’m a big proponent of LLMs as tools for personal
productivity, and as software platforms for building
interesting applications that can interact with human language.
But I’m increasingly of the opinion that sharing unreviewed
content that has been artificially generated with other people is
rude.
Slop is the ideal name for this anti-pattern.
Not all promotional content is spam, and not all AI-generated
content is slop. But if it’s mindlessly generated and thrust upon
someone who didn’t ask for it, slop is the perfect term for it.
Endorsed.
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Simon Willison:
I’m a big proponent of LLMs as tools for personal
productivity, and as software platforms for building
interesting applications that can interact with human language.
But I’m increasingly of the opinion that sharing unreviewed
content that has been artificially generated with other people is
rude.
Slop is the ideal name for this anti-pattern.
Not all promotional content is spam, and not all AI-generated
content is slop. But if it’s mindlessly generated and thrust upon
someone who didn’t ask for it, slop is the perfect term for it.
Endorsed.