<![CDATA["AI Slop (n.) The endless tide of mediocre, derivative content produced by models trained on other models’ mediocre, derivative content.]]>"AI Slop (n.) The endless tide of mediocre, derivative content produced by models trained on other models’ mediocre, derivative content. The cultural equivalent of feeding a landfill into a blender and calling the result “progress.”"

"The Devil's Dictionary of Vibe Coding" goes hard https://gist.github.com/artfwo/63eaaffdb47cbba342b04f989bd9463b

]]>https://forum.other.li/topic/59d5de26-b3e5-4689-b8d2-68f92dbeff4a/ai-slop-n.-the-endless-tide-of-mediocre-derivative-content-produced-by-models-trained-on-other-models-mediocre-derivative-content.RSS for NodeTue, 21 Apr 2026 07:44:53 GMTWed, 08 Apr 2026 09:31:28 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to "AI Slop (n.) The endless tide of mediocre, derivative content produced by models trained on other models’ mediocre, derivative content. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:10:36 GMT]]>@tante cargo-culting is a term that has racist connotations but we're good because we can now use claude-culting instead

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://mas.to/users/gabrielesvelto/statuses/116368542064368472https://forum.other.li/post/https://mas.to/users/gabrielesvelto/statuses/116368542064368472Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:10:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "AI Slop (n.) The endless tide of mediocre, derivative content produced by models trained on other models’ mediocre, derivative content. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:06:08 GMT]]>@tante People on a recent conference on system safety presented their work on creating assurance cases for safety-critical systems using AI. The research paper shows multi-page prompts with section titles and various pleads to the AI. Absolutely ridiculous. The upshot of this (and one other) talk was "We tried it. it doesn't work. We love it."🤦‍♂️

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://digitalcourage.social/users/hopfgeist/statuses/116368524450097443https://forum.other.li/post/https://digitalcourage.social/users/hopfgeist/statuses/116368524450097443Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:06:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "AI Slop (n.) The endless tide of mediocre, derivative content produced by models trained on other models’ mediocre, derivative content. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:51:56 GMT]]>@tante the gods reply with markdown… 🫨 brilliant

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/oatmeal/statuses/116368468624908111https://forum.other.li/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/oatmeal/statuses/116368468624908111Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:51:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "AI Slop (n.) The endless tide of mediocre, derivative content produced by models trained on other models’ mediocre, derivative content. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:39:10 GMT]]>@tante “nicht-deterministisch”

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://chaos.social/users/carl/statuses/116368418442896708https://forum.other.li/post/https://chaos.social/users/carl/statuses/116368418442896708Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:39:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "AI Slop (n.) The endless tide of mediocre, derivative content produced by models trained on other models’ mediocre, derivative content. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:35:03 GMT]]>@tante I refuse to do it out of principle!

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://jorts.horse/users/kkarhan/statuses/116368402265727252https://forum.other.li/post/https://jorts.horse/users/kkarhan/statuses/116368402265727252Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:35:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "AI Slop (n.) The endless tide of mediocre, derivative content produced by models trained on other models’ mediocre, derivative content. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:32:06 GMT]]>"Prompt Engineering (n.) The modern equivalent of sacrificing a goat to the gods, except the goat is your dignity and the gods reply with markdown. Practitioners insist it is a rigorous discipline. It is not. It is witchcraft with extra steps."

Yeah.

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://tldr.nettime.org/users/tante/statuses/116368390631729735https://forum.other.li/post/https://tldr.nettime.org/users/tante/statuses/116368390631729735Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:32:06 GMT