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[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 months ago (2 children)

https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/8/slop/

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

TIL

[–] akilou 23 points 4 months ago (5 children)

But there is no "spam-core" aesthetic

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Sure there is, it's the weirdos who print out emails (or print literally everything).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

This is most likely an error in space-time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I beg to differ

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5c6c6a87-a5b9-4005-9d5c-bf9ed7cf25ef.jpeg

[–] taladar 1 points 4 months ago

Well, there is James Veitch and similar comedians turning spam into part of their art.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

extended warranties have become a meme, and probably are an aesthetic

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wasnt "slop" used before AI to describe something bad and masse produced on the internet?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Not even the internet specifically, but often media in general. It comes from the use of "slop" as the mix of garbage that you pour into a feeding trough for pigs. Basically junk that companies think people will gobble up regardless of the quality.