Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content

I imagine the use of this term comes from the name for the leftover foodstuff that gets fed to pigs, usually from a bucket.<p>As a small scale pig farmer, I approve of the use of this term; I care enough about the welfare of my pigs that I would never risk feeding them anything that would be considered slop. Plus, pigs fed with slop usually end up tasting bad, because they are what they eat.<p>A wonderfully apt metaphor that reflects both the voracious appetites of modern AI systems and the resulting quality of the results.

It&#x27;s been used in this meaning on 4chan for at least half a year, maybe more.

I was actually pondering the new delineation yesterday; the line between spam, propaganda, trolling, and censorship was never too fine as it is now.<p>I like the term slop. I needed the word yesterday.

LLM slop or AI slop totally works but slop just by itself is so generic, I doubt slop by itself will catch on but who knows.

Stop trying to make slop happen, it&#x27;s not gonna happen.

Slop is an old term for allowed overlap between objects.

Slop is a word for waste water and messy animal food. Don&#x27;t quite understand the debates here in the comments.<p>I like how it sounds similar to spam.

A good coin, this one. It needed a simple name, and it falls perfectly into a list of &quot;four letter words.&quot;

slop is also unwanted food waste watered down and fed to swine.

Eh, the internet is full of garbage SEO-spam already. We have a word for that, which is enshittification, which imo correctly identifies the root perpetrators of the problem: platform owners utilizing monopolies.<p>I don&#x27;t see why we need a word for AI-generated garbage specifically, not yet at least.<p>Like if I go onto google maps and search &quot;Best restaurants in my area&quot; it&#x27;s going to 100% recommend fast-food chains that have purchased product placement. I don&#x27;t feel AI plays a significant role in bad recommendations at this point, and to blaming&#x2F;stopping AI wouldn&#x27;t really help.