Oy! “Slopper?”, now that’s some Nobel Prize-level vocabulary, man.
So the internet, in all its infinite wisdom, has puked up a totally new nickname for those enlightened geniuses like me, who can’t even scratch their butt without first consulting the digital deity known as “the AI”. Rusty Foster is a masterfully snarky guru from the Today in Tabs newsletter, and he blessed us with this hilarious linguistic nugget, when he referred to that lazy-ass human sub-species as being “sloppers” (and no, schlubs, I ain’t talkin’ cheeseburgers doused in green chili sauce).
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“A friend of mine just spat out ‘Sloppers’ for folks who make ChatGPT wipe their noses for them”, and following that post, the TikTok sage intrnetbf said he thinks Slopper is the best description ever, in a clip that has since gone more viral than herpes at Woodstock.
Sloppers.
Simply brilliant.
Here you go: We Need To Talk About Sloppers
Well now, Rusty threw a spotlight on one particular TikTok vid himself that was starring a hapless dude spilling tea about his first dating disaster. He said “this gal whipped out ChatGPT mid-date to ask the friggin’ bot what to order from the menu (the date itself had no sequel of course).
This “AI slop” label’s already out there describing that steaming garbage littering the Google search engine, the Facebooks and the Pinterests of the world, from ChatGPT’s diarrhea to endless images, vids and music of Midjourney’s, Veo’s and Sora’s vomit*.
The people who have ‘evolved’ to become AI-First have now been upgraded to “slopper”, and to me, this classy term has got echoes of “glassholes”** – you remember those obnoxious Google Glass wearin’ hipsters from 2012? Yeah, same energy.
Truth be told, I desperately wanted them, be they were absolutely hard to come by and friggin’ expensive.
But hold your horses, schlomos!
The internet jury ain’t finished deliberating on this label just yet. TikTok’s peanut gallery immediately bombed the comments with other priceless suggestions.
“Botlicker’s my fave”, said one brilliant schmuck.
“Someone once said ‘second-hand thinker’ and that phrase haunts me nightly”, said another amateur philosopher.
Sure, though it is mostly for shits and giggles, but this fresh slang spotlights the rise of anti-AI pushback, because of job losses, unreliable info (deepfakes), authenticity issues (is it written by a hooman or a bot?), and even people who are getting ChatGPT psychosis***.
The digital cynics are trying to pointing out the crapfest that happens when tech becomes your one and only braincell. Plus, there’s the growing rage at this tech which is bulldozing actual human workers, like artists, writers, content creators who are all getting sacrificed on the altar of “automation”. Last week, Vogue’s die-hard readership went full rabid raccoon after stumbling across a Guess ad featuring a totally AI-generated “model” (holy polyethylene, Batman).
And now regular peeps are officially sick and tired of watching friends and family outsource basic decision-making to ChatGPT’s cheerful (but usually wrong) confabulating concierge. It’s like I’ve been watching someone snort pure stupidity hydrochloride and then marvel at how they’re still alive.
Mr. Rusty also waxed some poetry in his newsletter about the fundamental disconnect between “language” and actual friggin’ “thought“, now that LLMs like ChatGPT have mastered the fine art of bullshitting with style. Because despite all the Big Tech dick-swinging about AI’s intelligence, it still can’t reason its way out of a goddamn paper bag.
Yet us hoomand, those glorious schmendricks we are, we are utterly failing the biggest test of critical thinking since Eve swallowed that apple-flavored LSD. Now disinformation and batshit conspiracies spread like gonorrhea at Coachella, thanks to these digital sludge factories.
But Foster kept nailing it cold.
“ChatGPT is the poster child of our postmodern crapfest, and hardly anyone’s developed the brain cells needed to differentiate between actual thinking and the clever linguistic vomit these bots pump out”, and he signed off with “All evidence points straight to an inevitable global slopper pandemic”.
Signing off,
Marco
* Read:
- Oh great, another year of botshit piled on botshit, thanks Google | LinkedIn
- The Sloppiverse is here, and what are the consequences for writing and speaking? | LinkedIn
- The rise of slopfluencers and the fall of, umm. . . like, everything else | LinkedIn
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I build AI by day and warn about it by night. I call it job security. Big Tech keeps inflating its promises, and I bring the pins. I call that balance and for me it is also simply therapy.
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