"slop" isn't a word that was invented for AI, it's always been used to describe something disorganized and messy.
As long as AI produces disorganized, messy content, that content is "slop".
"slop" isn't a word that was invented for AI, it's always been used to describe something disorganized and messy.
As long as AI produces disorganized, messy content, that content is "slop".
Pandora was never inside the box. She safeguarded a container which held various deadly evils and her curiosity led to her accidentally releasing those evils into the world.
AI is here to stay
Always the same sentence from cog suckers. It's never something new or original.
cog suckers
Well, I've never heard that before, but I'm definitely stealing it.
Well yeah. I'm pretty sure generative AI is not capable of generating anything original.
(edit: stupid writing mistakes)
Do i understand you correct that you expect humanity to at one point no longer use machine learning and/or generative models?
Because I'd be honestly interested in the train of thought leading to that - I can't imagine it.
The corporate machine drying up, sure - but removing use? No idea.
I don't understand what you're saying but: AI is not here to stay, it's not inevitable, and should be avoided by most people because it makes them stupid.
My question is: "how?"
I can't imagine a path where what you're calling "AI" (fixing marketing term) will disappear again.
"Inevitable" is a weird term die me - it's here. Someone must happen for it to disappear again.
Perhaps you're thinking of specific user groups? ( "Makes most people stupid" for example is something I fully get. Just like Facebook though and that never went away either :( )
When they say "AI is here to stay" they mean "you cannot avoid it" (aka FOMO, the same propaganda they used for bitcoins and NFTs, see how quickly they all switched to AI?) which is wrong because I have been avoiding it easily since the beginning.
Yes it is technically here to stay like a cancer, it doesn't mean I have to suffer.
Ahh now I got you!
Thanks for the explanation and giving me the benefit of doubt!
No idea how "they" use this. But i mean it much in the way Scipitie here has correctly understood it. AI is here. We don't have to like it, personally i use zero AI in my live. But the technology has it's foothold widh the masses by now. I don't see how it would ever go away again. It will transform, post crash and all, but it won't go away.
Do i understand you correct that you expect humanity to at I've point no longer use maybe learning
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You couldn't have underlined the top level guy's comment any better than this.
Haha a LLM wouldn't have made these mistakes though. I will rather make my mistakes than delegate communicating with people to my machine, let alone someone else's.
Thanks for calling it out, will fix!
Edit: it's hilarious though that you take a non LLM users error as proof that LLMs will go away because their users get dumber. I should be your proof that at least my writing should be replaced by a machine, no?
Just blame autocorrect, it's probably accurately at fault anyway.
Also though, llms and ml aren't "ai" any more than a bolt is your car.
edit: you also missed a grammar mistake in the other comment
I doubt that. The word slopis older than LLMs, if they will become more accepted the word slop would be used less, not change its meaning
I mean, it already did, didn't it? Iirc slop used to just mean low effort, cheap, formulaic, and safe content or whatever you're describing. Now to most people, it just means anything made using generative AI, which in most if not all cases would fit this definition, but now it heavily implies AI use now
I suspect "slop" will come to mean anything the speaker, personally, doesn't like. It's already slowly heading that way; a lot of the anti-AI people already accuse any writing they hate as being AI generated, while giving a pass to whatever they personally appreciate. Recent studies show that a person's intuition about if text is AI or not is approximately as accurate as a coin toss.
As evidenced by at least one person implying my original message was slop because they disliked it. I said AI without adding the appropriate curse words with it, so it's my own fault i guess.
I can still see a positive transformation of the word slop over time. Many slurs have been adopted in the past and turned on their head. I belive it is called reappropriation.
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