AI Slop
I understand why AI slop is such a big deal.
Who said the e-revolution killed reading? Now we get to read all about how Kate Winslet once refused to wear eye shadow for a shot’s retake, and took a stand for all females the world over. Character matters more than looks girls. Remember that. Remember Kate Winslet took on all of Hollywood with her courage that day and redefined the industry. I think Julia Roberts might’ve done it too. Or was it Meryl Streep? I forget.
If you want to change the way you say something, go for it, Emma Thompson changed the way the industry thinks by saying what she thought one day. Even Audrey Hepburn proved she was more than a pretty face by saying something, You’ve got this.
We just need you to become famous, and then AI will make a courageous princess of you.
3 paragraphs or 300 words about it. Then, thousands of likes and shares, and you are well on your way.
We also know that Paul McCartney may have said good-night to his grandchildren when they stayed over with him. Now, what a wonderful human-being? If only, we all learned that the smallest words have the largest impact. Keanu Reeves also said something the other day. I am not entirely sure. But it all goes to prove that AI is watching and learning.
So, I have been saying goodnight to all things bright and beautiful, all things big and small ever since. I may have frightened the deer in the meadows one night, but – I learn from the best. Saying goodnight to fellow beings is a form of compassion.
All day everyday in our scrolling for your amusement and entertainment. The AI slop is generating, regurgitating, and filling our spaces. As someone who lamented the increasingly short ways in which we communicate, the AI slop seems to be doing the writing for us. Now, all we need is a chip to read it all, let us know what to think and just program it in seamlessly. The human experience bypassing the human.
It isn’t just about the words either. The other day an old lady took on a tiger. It went viral.
Inspired by her, an old lady in a rural village ran after her cat and is now recovering from a hip fracture. AI claims to have no part in it.
Cynical? Yes.
6-7
Come on! We can do better than that. We can give ourselves maybe a 6-7 on effort can’t we?
I cannot help but think how marvelous it would be to have AI bots as your students in a classroom. “That is not good. Try again. “
Voila!
“You are right!” It says. So mature, so humble, and so willing to try again. Over and over till the teacher tires of it. Such hardworking bot-kids.
I have seen children whine their way through a single sheet of paper for an entire hour.
That is what the human psyche is capable of. What’s wrong with 6-7-ing our way through life? We were doing perfectly just that till AI slop decided to come along and make us more productive. So, you want us to 8-9 our way through life now? What gives?
Rage-baiting
All you have to do is make a reference to a certain prime number in the 60’s. Eye rolls and exasperation follows – but I could see this leading to rage-baiting too.
Stop rage-baiting the hardly working children, AI Slop!
Parasocial
One word that reminds me of simpler times when we laughed at the bigger effort jokes. I remember the pater laughing well before he found the YouTube clip for me – he laughed through it all explaining every sentence the comedian spoke in that clip.
The build up to the comedic punch-line is as funny as the joke itself. “Do you really think you can arrest me for an expired driver’s license?” the comedian says on the screen. “Shall I make a call to Inspector General of Police?”
The traffic policeman freezes. “Do you know him?” He says.
“Yes – but he doesn’t know me!” says the c, and the audience collapses laughing.
I must check the number of times that snippet was played and replayed on YouTube for laughs.
Must we have a word for the kind of anticipatory laugh that comes from that long-ish sentiment?
Yes. Snaps fingers. Efficiency. Have you forgotten? Get with the times.
Now, the comedian needs to be stopped by the policeman demanding to see his expired driver’s license and he says, “Parasocial IG”.
Parasocial means: Having a one-sided relationship with a famous person.
Vivek did not redefine the industry with that 6-7-ish attempt at comedy did he? No, he worked through 6-7 retakes of that shot before they got it right on cinema. He rage-baited that traffic cop for a laugh.
Sigh! So what have all these words got in common? You ask.
They are all winners of the Word of the Year title.
- Merriam Webster – Slop
- Oxford University Press – rage-bait
- Dictionary.com – 67
- Cambridge dictionary – Parasocial
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