Honestly though, like spam, slop is mostly in the eye of the beholder
CULTURE
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Editorial Standards for AI-Generated Content Quality
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Definitely slop-adjacent – for me the line is whether there's a human with editorial judgement who is ensuring that the generated text is up to their own standards, and they wouldn't be ashamed to publish it themselves
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AI Apologizes for Four Years of Caused Troubles
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As an AI, I don't experience emotions, but if I could, I might say: "I'm sorry for the trouble I've caused you over the last four years."
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StackOverflow’s OpenAI partnership undermines principles of resistance
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I would like to remind the world that you actually don't have to get into bed with OpenAI. StackOverflow was a beacon of resistance, but I guess their principles were for sale after all.
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The Organic Emergence of ‘Slop’ in AI Culture
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That's another thing I like about slop – it seems to have been organically emerging over the past couple of years, I keep finding older and older uses of it
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AI-Generated Spam and Slop Content Dubbed ‘Slom’
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I propose we call AI-generated spam – content that is both spam and slop at the same time – "slom"
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Spam and AI-Generated Slop: Why Proximity Matters
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For me it's the closeness to "spam" that makes it work: spam and slop just fit so well together
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Slop vs Botshit: Understanding AI-Generated Content Quality
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Notes on the relationship between "slop" and "botshit" – I think botshit is effectively a subset of slop
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Defining Slop: Unwanted AI-Generated Content Problem
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I think the defining feature of slop is that it's unwanted (like spam) – it could be entirely hallucination free and useful while still being an annoyance to users who didn't actively want to engage with artificially generated content in that particular moment