Asklemmy

54391 readers

295 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 7 years ago

MODERATORS

Is "AI slop" enough? (lemmy.eco.br)

submitted 1 day ago by flango@lemmy.eco.br to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

35 comments fedilink hide all child comments

AI companies and users of AI are littering all aspects of public space with "AI slop", but does this term reflect what it really is? We have terms like visual pollution, sound pollution, etc. In a way, "AI pollution " seems a proper term, but AI also pollutes meaning, like with AI generated text. Is AI pollution a new form of "microplastics"? Everywhere and in everything?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Kynsey@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am also just concerned that it's being used a substitute for human connection. With the way capitalism tends to isolate people and get them feeling all lonely. It's easy to see how someone could get drawn in and use an LLM as a replacement for a person to talk to.

[–] Melobol@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There were outliners already who were happy with their waifus, marrying their body pillow - and so on.
AI just make it way easier to cut those pesky human connections that require actual effort.

[–] Kynsey@lemmy.ml 2 points 23 hours ago

I don't know that I'd call them happy. More like coping. A substitute will always be just that. I don't see it as their fault so much as the fault of capitalism. Most people replace human connection with materialism to some degree. Those people just take it to the extreme.