Indexing as 1-6, I’ve never heard of the intent-based 3⁄4 before, even within anti spaces. Not that I’m doubting, but still wondering where.
If I axe those, I feel there are two natural categories:
stylistic slop, the kind of AI slop which the layman is concerned of. “Not X, But Y”, and the targets of Pangram and the like. This kind of slop is essentially a user-laziness + defaults problem, not a capabilities issue. Although it was capabilities gapped a few years ago, at this point it’s trivially easy to apply a bit of prompting creativity to bypass 99% of people’s slop detectors on various social media platforms. The failure of content creators to do so is, as you describe in 6, primarily downstream of the low barriers to entry on this technology.
conceptual slop, which can be sampled via certain crackpot circles or the lesswrong moderation graveyard. These correspond to points 1⁄2 better, and I haven’t spent much time considering the issue.
Although it was capabilities gapped a few years ago, at this point it’s trivially easy to apply a bit of prompting creativity to bypass 99% of people’s slop detectors on various social media platforms.
Can you elaborate? My impression is that at least Claude models struggle immensely to avoid their typical way of speaking (which I find annoying as hell), and I never managed to find a prompt that works to avoid that.
Indexing as 1-6, I’ve never heard of the intent-based 3⁄4 before, even within anti spaces. Not that I’m doubting, but still wondering where.
If I axe those, I feel there are two natural categories:
stylistic slop, the kind of AI slop which the layman is concerned of. “Not X, But Y”, and the targets of Pangram and the like.
This kind of slop is essentially a user-laziness + defaults problem, not a capabilities issue. Although it was capabilities gapped a few years ago, at this point it’s trivially easy to apply a bit of prompting creativity to bypass 99% of people’s slop detectors on various social media platforms. The failure of content creators to do so is, as you describe in 6, primarily downstream of the low barriers to entry on this technology.
conceptual slop, which can be sampled via certain crackpot circles or the lesswrong moderation graveyard. These correspond to points 1⁄2 better, and I haven’t spent much time considering the issue.
Can you elaborate? My impression is that at least Claude models struggle immensely to avoid their typical way of speaking (which I find annoying as hell), and I never managed to find a prompt that works to avoid that.
Just treat it as a combination of low standards and paranoia.