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Slop has been a word associated with AI, and iirc--before AI became mainstream--the word was used to describe games, software, and other creative works/products of labor that were churned out for the sake of profit, whether it was an indie dev developing 100s of crappy Steam Greenlight games that repeated the same formula of the same sloppily written codebase, or some capitalist hyperexploiting their workers to create rushed work that lacks any soul because of the intense alienation it was made under. I always felt "slop" existed, especially under capitalism, and because there's so much "slop" on the internet resulting from the push for quantity and speed over quality, AI will likely produce more slop because it reflects the majority of works that the system encouraged. In a sense, AI isn't artificial intelligence, but alienation imitation.
I'm not sure I am stating something that is obvious, noteworthy, or already discussed, but I haven't really seen it mentioned in this context almost anywhere online, and it's something that has been on my mind for a while.
yeah we switched from calling it "shovelware" to "slop" several years before LLMs were a thing