I was unaware of antisemitic connotations or etymology for ‘AI slop’, but I guess, after searching, that OP is referring to ‘goyslop’ and inferring that that is the etymological root here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goyslop
I’m not sure I buy that; I thought ‘AI slop’ was coined by anti-corporate leftists on Mastodon or Blue Sky, if anything, and the 6 centuries of pejorative ‘slop’ usage—particularly for food in general, not just ‘goyslop’ - before any online frogs got to the word, seem to me to be adequate to justify believing it an independent invention in lieu of direct evidence that ‘AI slop’ was based on ‘goyslop’.
The use of “slop” for vaguely malicious low-quality content (supposedly) originates from a 4chan meme “goyslop”, where fast food is implied to be part of a Jewish conspiracy: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/goyslop
Seems much simpler to assume that both ‘goyslop’ and ‘AI slop’ are derived from slop as in:
Slop is the common name for household food scraps
Slop is the common name for pigs’ animal feed
That KnowYourMeme article even says: ‘The term combines the terms “goyim,” a Jewish word for people who are not Jewish, and “slop,” a term often used to criticize food as disgusting.’
Yeah this is what I meant. I may have over indexed on the fact that literally yesterday I had to explain to my friend that the word “zogslop” was not just made up by an Instagram user to sound funny.
wh...what? https://www.etymonline.com/word/slop ?
I was unaware of antisemitic connotations or etymology for ‘AI slop’, but I guess, after searching, that OP is referring to ‘goyslop’ and inferring that that is the etymological root here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goyslop
I’m not sure I buy that; I thought ‘AI slop’ was coined by anti-corporate leftists on Mastodon or Blue Sky, if anything, and the 6 centuries of pejorative ‘slop’ usage—particularly for food in general, not just ‘goyslop’ - before any online frogs got to the word, seem to me to be adequate to justify believing it an independent invention in lieu of direct evidence that ‘AI slop’ was based on ‘goyslop’.
The use of “slop” for vaguely malicious low-quality content (supposedly) originates from a 4chan meme “goyslop”, where fast food is implied to be part of a Jewish conspiracy: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/goyslop
Seems much simpler to assume that both ‘goyslop’ and ‘AI slop’ are derived from slop as in:
Slop is the common name for household food scraps
Slop is the common name for pigs’ animal feed
That KnowYourMeme article even says: ‘The term combines the terms “goyim,” a Jewish word for people who are not Jewish, and “slop,” a term often used to criticize food as disgusting.’
Yeah this is what I meant. I may have over indexed on the fact that literally yesterday I had to explain to my friend that the word “zogslop” was not just made up by an Instagram user to sound funny.