Last year, Merriam-Webster named “slop” its Word of the year to describe the AI-generated digital junk swamping social media. As defined by experts, AI Slop is a pejorative term for “digital content made with generative artificial intelligence that is perceived as lacking in effort, quality, or deeper meaning, and produced at an overwhelming volume.”
AI slop is content churned out in bulk, often mindlessly, to fill feeds and farm clicks.
Learn how slop is made and how to av
John Donne’s Meditation XVII, best known for the line “for whom the bell tolls,” argues that no person stands apart from the rest of humanity. What happens to one part of the whole eventually reaches the rest.
I work in software engineering. I am part of the problem. I understand why data centers exist, and I benefit from them like everyone else. The cloud isn’t some kind of metaphysical thing… it sits somewhere, on land, tied to power and water and people.
But I also live
It’s that time of year again, when we find ourselves making the journey home or to the houses of loved ones to gather for The Great Feast. Thanksgiving. Some of those ones are harder to love than others, however, especially during these trying times.
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