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		protocolture 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Low-background Steel: content without AI contamina... >Now the Web at large is full of slop generated by large language models, written by no one to communicate nothing. Including this slop in the data skews the word frequencies. I really do just bail out whenever anyone uses the word slop. >As one example, Philip Shapira reports that ChatGPT (OpenAI's popular brand of generative language model circa 2024) is obsessed with the word "delve" in a way that people never have been, and caused its overall frequency to increase by an order of magnitude. Should run the same analysis against the word slop.

fer 3 months ago [–]

>I really do just bail out whenever anyone uses the word slop.

I do when people try to pass slop around as organic content.

> Should run the same analysis against the word slop.

That sounds like tautology: the more slop, the more people tend to call slop slop.

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