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.
A wonderfully apt metaphor that reflects both the voracious appetites of modern AI systems and the resulting quality of the results.
I like the term slop. I needed the word yesterday.
I like how it sounds similar to spam.
I don't see why we need a word for AI-generated garbage specifically, not yet at least.
Like if I go onto google maps and search "Best restaurants in my area" it's going to 100% recommend fast-food chains that have purchased product placement. I don't feel AI plays a significant role in bad recommendations at this point, and to blaming/stopping AI wouldn't really help.
Plenty of examples of enshittification have nothing to do with generative AI.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification mentions Cory's alternative definition of "platform decline".
If a company is automatically posting slop, then the root of the problem is enshittification, and AI is just means.
