Here's a brilliant neologism: "slop", for text generated entirely by LLMs and published, unwanted, on the Internet
> Watching in real time as "slop" becomes a term of art. the way that "spam" became the term for unwanted emails, "slop" is going in the dictionary as the term for unwanted AI generated content
@levampyre its not an acronym - it's an adaptation of the word that means "food waste fed to animals", now being communally defined to mean unwanted AI-generated content
"I’m a big proponent of LLMs as tools for personal productivity ...
But I’m increasingly of the opinion that sharing unreviewed content that has been artificially generated with other people is rude."
I (rcriii) am not a big proponent of AI, but recognize that some very smart people are, so the distinction between choosing to use AI (perfectly reasonable) versus having it shoved in my face (rude!) helps clarify my thinking.
@rcriii@simon Recently witnessed a particularly sad example of trying to pass unreviewed content as the real thing, where a non-native speaker with poor aesthetic awareness almost sent a pdf to a client that was obviously LLM-generated, comically redundant, and of very poor structure. This will for sure become a real problem especially for lesser skilled people. If you don't know what the proper output should look like, and still use it as a short cut, things start to go awry pretty badly.
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