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I'm not sure how it is for other topics, but when it comes to programming topics, I keep finding more and more AI slop on "developer" blogs. It's getting to the point where finding helpful content is more and more difficult. I guess because the people who don't actually care about knowledge can spew slop at a much higher rate than people who produce quality content.

Dev blogs used to be a decent supplement to library docs. Not really any more. 😒

*Plastic is slop, it's an oozy petroleum product, it crumbles, offgasses etc etc

*It was an amazing industrial miracle in the 1950s, they couldn't hype it enough

*I can see about 40 different plastic items from where I sit in this armchair

*Kid toys, clothing, furniture

*These laptop keys #slop

#AI is the new tobacco: that industry invented scientific controversy around the unquestionable harm of tobacco and lobbied aggressively against any regulation of its sales, just as corporations now peddle tall tales about utility of AI and lobby for its use everywhere, supercharging #enshittification by normalising #slop.
It took more than half a century to reverse what tobacco industry has done to public opinion on tobacco, and the damage to public health was irreversible.

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@nini @mattgade

It's not even that it is AI #slop, but that it takes an idea I think most folks here already agree with, and tries to present it with fake bona fides.

The implication is that someone cared enough to pay to put up a billboard on a public place. Social proof.

The message itself could have just been text, posted, even as a big image.

But whoever the original creator was chose to present it this way for more impact.

I'll agree with the point, but not the delivery

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@Traiken

Reminds me of Ted Gioia's Aesthetics of #Slop. They both criticizes the same thing, but from different POVs.

Where the New Socialist links Ai to fascist aesthetics (ai content embodies reactionary, hierarchical ideology that favors rigid structure, artificial perfection & control over the messy) Gioia's argument is a political one: the degradation of standards.

Gioia attacks corporate influences (Spotify-core music, low rent Netflix originals, etc)

substack.com/@tedgioia/p-15757

substack.comThe New Aesthetics of SlopOr what happens when vulgar technocrats control the arts

How do I permanently disable the #LLM #Slop features on @duckduckgo without allowing them to store cookies on my machine? I use cookie-autodelete, but ddg has always been decent enough from a fresh profile every time. Now they're inserting generated nonsense at the top and the only way to turn it off is to click the settings each time.

The CSS all seems to be random hashes, so I can't just uBlock the element by style information.

Current shibboleth to prove art isn't #AI #slop draw or paint a full wine glass (not a normal pour, full to the brim) being held by a hand clearly showing the correct number and proportion of fingers.

Current algorithms have problems with both of these, though they are getting better at fingers.

ZDNet: How to spot AI slop on Pinterest – and why it’s such a big problem. “For years, Pinterest has been dubbed the go-to social media site for inspirational mood boards, tracking lifestyle, fashion, and beauty trends, and finding niche and popular consumer-based products. Recently, however, the site has been plagued with an onslaught of AI slop, making it difficult for users to decipher […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/06/zdnet-how-to-spot-ai-slop-on-pinterest-and-why-its-such-a-big-problem/