<p>This definition of <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a> popped out of my head after a bit of un-entrainment (if you dig). </p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> </p><p><a href="https://realityfragments.com/2026/02/01/a-definition-of-ai-slop/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="realityfragments.com/2026/02/01/a-definition-of-ai-slop/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">realityfragments.com/2026/02/0</span><span class="invisible">1/a-definition-of-ai-slop/</span></a></p>
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<p>I call it slop because<br>that's the same sound<br>that our horse's shit makes<br>when it hits the ground.</p><p><a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#Poetry</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a></p><p>Edited to poem format.</p>
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It looks like Piwigo has decided to gunk up their otherwise useful photo sharing software with AI: <a href="https://piwigo.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=192388#p192388" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="piwigo.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=192388#p192388"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">piwigo.org/forum/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?pid=192388#p192388</span></a><br><br>I've been happy with Piwigo for many years but I don't want to end up stuck with a service that's throwing itself into the AI hole. Does anyone have recommendations for self-hosted photo sharing services that are similar to Piwigo? I want to be prepared to switch away from it if the need arises.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a> <a href="/tags/piwigo/" rel="tag">#Piwigo</a> <a href="/tags/photosharing/" rel="tag">#PhotoSharing</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosted/" rel="tag">#SelfHosted</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#SelfHosting</a><br>
<p>Shoutout to the human beings still manually making memes and not relying on some AI slop which is "an insult to Life itself" </p><p>I'd take a crude MSPaint drawing of a Taco over some Sam Altman enabling eye-slurry. </p><p><a href="/tags/taco/" rel="tag">#TACO</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AIslop</a></p>
<p>Google is innovating search in an amazing and yet predictable way — it’s removing the search results. There will only be the “AI Overview,” much loved by nobody.<br><br>You might think the point of search was to find a thing, then go to it. But then Google doesn’t make enough ad money. Trying to wheedle an answer out of a hallucinating robot might keep you on the page longer.<br></p>From <a href="https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/114122009704468173" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/114122009704468173"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">circumstances.run/users/davidg</span><span class="invisible">erard/statuses/114122009704468173</span></a><br><br>Edit: Reading the Google blog post about this change more carefully (thanks <span class="h-card"><a href="https://weirder.earth/@picklish" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>picklish</span></a></span> ), it seems more of an experimental feature than a default. I think the worry that Google will eventually make "AI overview" the default is a real and valid one, but I don't it's the case right now. If it ever does happen we will need to stop using the word "Google" as a synonym for "search" and declare RIP Google, 1998 - 2025<br><br><a href="/tags/ir/" rel="tag">#IR</a> <a href="/tags/informationretrieval/" rel="tag">#InformationRetrieval</a> <a href="/tags/search/" rel="tag">#search</a> <a href="/tags/google/" rel="tag">#Google</a> <a href="/tags/ripgoogle/" rel="tag">#RIPGoogle</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a><br>
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<p>Do you hate <a href="/tags/broligarchs/" rel="tag">#broligarchs</a>?<br><a href="/tags/billionaires/" rel="tag">#Billionaires</a>? <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AiSlop</a> but still think there is merit in <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a>?</p><p>Here is my proposal for a stand alone.<br>OFFGRID COMMUNITY AI SYSTEM.</p><p>That's right.Your very own co-op AI</p><p>The calculations are very much back of the envelope, first cut, but quite feasible.<br>A 32billion parameters, frontier level performance compatable open source <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#llm</a> model. The power requirements is that of 3AC units including cooling. Serves 15-20 concurrent users. 40 households of 4 people each (taking into account actual AI model distributed use metrics and contention ratios) </p><p>40 households, subscribing at $30/month over 2 years + power (solar). Train with your own datasets.<br>Entire set up takes half a rack. </p><p>LETS GO!!! </p><p><a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a> <a href="/tags/communitytech/" rel="tag">#CommunityTech</a> <a href="/tags/openhardware/" rel="tag">#OpenHardware</a> <a href="/tags/ethicalai/" rel="tag">#EthicalAI</a> <a href="/tags/responsibleai/" rel="tag">#ResponsibleAI</a> <a href="/tags/aiforgood/" rel="tag">#AIForGood</a> <a href="/tags/techforgood/" rel="tag">#TechForGood</a> <a href="/tags/solarpunk/" rel="tag">#Solarpunk</a> <a href="/tags/regenerativeculture/" rel="tag">#RegenerativeCulture</a> <a href="/tags/degrowth/" rel="tag">#Degrowth</a> <a href="/tags/appropriatetechnology/" rel="tag">#AppropriateTechnology</a> <a href="/tags/offgrid/" rel="tag">#OffGrid</a> <a href="/tags/selfsufficient/" rel="tag">#SelfSufficient</a> <a href="/tags/homesteading/" rel="tag">#Homesteading</a> <a href="/tags/permaculture/" rel="tag">#Permaculture</a> <a href="/tags/righttorepair/" rel="tag">#RightToRepair</a> <a href="/tags/makerspace/" rel="tag">#MakerSpace</a> <a href="/tags/diytech/" rel="tag">#DIYTech</a> <a href="/tags/decentralizedtech/" rel="tag">#decentralizedtech</a></p>
Atlassian decided to vomit AI all over Jira so I decided to mop it up with uBlock Origin. So far so good. One thing I haven't figured out yet is how to get it out of the context menus (right-click menus).<br><br>I also noticed a new Copilot button in GitHub so I zapped that one too.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a> <a href="/tags/jira/" rel="tag">#Jira</a> <a href="/tags/atlassian/" rel="tag">#Atlassian</a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#NoAI</a> <a href="/tags/github/" rel="tag">#GitHub</a><br>
"AI" is Google's "pivot to video" moment:<br><br>Google AI Search Shift Leaves Website Makers Feeling ‘Betrayed’<br><p>The now-ubiquitous AI-generated answers — and the way Google has changed its search algorithm to support them — have caused traffic to independent websites to plummet, according to Bloomberg interviews with 25 publishers and people who work with them.<br></p>From <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-07/google-ai-search-shift-leaves-website-makers-feeling-betrayed" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-07/google-ai-search-shift-leaves-website-makers-feeling-betrayed"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bloomberg.com/news/article</span><span class="invisible">s/2025-04-07/google-ai-search-shift-leaves-website-makers-feeling-betrayed</span></a><br><br>Remember when Facebook told everyone they should change all their content to video, because it got more traffic? And then that turned out to be such a blatant falsehood that companies went bankrupt trying to do this?<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/google/" rel="tag">#Google</a> <a href="/tags/gemini/" rel="tag">#Gemini</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a><br>
Edited 354d ago
Definitely read this whole thread about the eBook manager calibre adding AI slop to "chat with books", and why that's a horrible move that immediately destroys trust in calibre. Here are some highlights I especially appreciated:<br><p>Here, Calibre, in one release, went from a tool readers can use to, well, read, to a tool that fundamentally views books as textureless content, no more than the information contained within them. Anything about presentation, form, perspective, voice, is irrelevant to that view. Books are no longer art, they're ingots of tin to be melted down.<br></p><p>It is completely irrelevant to me whether this new slopware is opt-in or opt-out. Its mere presence and endorsement fundamentally undermines that stance, that it is good, actually, if readers and authors can exist in relationship to each other without also being under the control of a extractive mindset that sees books as mere vehicles, unimportant as artistic works in and of themselves.<br></p><a href="https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115671289658145064" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="wandering.shop/@xgranade/115671289658145064"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wandering.shop/@xgranade/11567</span><span class="invisible">1289658145064</span></a><br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/ebooks/" rel="tag">#eBooks</a> <a href="/tags/ebookmanager/" rel="tag">#eBookManager</a> <a href="/tags/calibre/" rel="tag">#calibre</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a><br>
For anyone tracking what's going on with generative AI appearing in the eBook software calibre, the calibre developer seems to be asking us to avoid his software:<br><br>In a <a href="https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pull/2838#issuecomment-3172625811" rel="nofollow">GitHub issue</a> about adding LLM features:<br><p>I definitely think allowing the user to continue the conversation is useful. In my own use of LLMs I tend to often ask followup questions, being able to do so in the same window will be useful.<br></p>In other words he likes LLMs and uses them himself; he's probably not adding these features under pressure from users. I can't help but wonder whether there's vibe code in there.<br><br><br>In the <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/2134316/comments/3" rel="nofollow">bug report</a>:<br><p>Wow, really! What is it with you people that think you can dictate what I choose to do with my time and my software? You find AI offensive, dont use it, or even better, dont use calibre, I can certainly do without users like you. Do NOT try to dictate to other people what they can or cannot do.<br></p>"You people", also known as paying users. He's dismissive of people's concerns about generative AI, and claims ownership of the software ("my software"). He tells people with concerns to get lost, setting up an antagonistic, us-versus-them scenario. We even get scream caps!<br><br>Personally, besides the fact that I have a zero tolerance policy about generative AI, I've had enough of arrogant software developers. Read the room.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/calibre/" rel="tag">#calibre</a> <a href="/tags/ebooks/" rel="tag">#eBooks</a> <a href="/tags/ebookmanagers/" rel="tag">#eBookManagers</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a> <a href="/tags/aipoisoning/" rel="tag">#AIPoisoning</a> <a href="/tags/informationoilspill/" rel="tag">#InformationOilSpill</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a> <a href="/tags/softwaredevelopment/" rel="tag">#SoftwareDevelopment</a><br>
Edited 120d ago
<p>Hacker News front page today. </p><p>Uh-oh. </p><p>"AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'"<br><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theregister.com/2025/08/21</span><span class="invisible">/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/</span></a></p><p>"Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears"<br><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/21/zuckerberg-freezes-ai-hiring-amid-bubble-fears/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/21/zuckerberg-freezes-ai-hiring-amid-bubble-fears/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2</span><span class="invisible">025/08/21/zuckerberg-freezes-ai-hiring-amid-bubble-fears/</span></a></p><p>"95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds"<br><a href="https://thedailyadda.com/95-of-companies-see-zero-return-on-30-billion-generative-ai-spend-mit-report-finds/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thedailyadda.com/95-of-companies-see-zero-return-on-30-billion-generative-ai-spend-mit-report-finds/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thedailyadda.com/95-of-compani</span><span class="invisible">es-see-zero-return-on-30-billion-generative-ai-spend-mit-report-finds/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a></p>
<p>New piece on the blog! This one offering a theological commentary on Christianity and technology (and how it might be rooted in an eschatological heresy!)</p><p><a href="/tags/christianity/" rel="tag">#Christianity</a> <a href="/tags/church/" rel="tag">#Church</a> <a href="/tags/episcopal/" rel="tag">#Episcopal</a> <a href="/tags/anglican/" rel="tag">#Anglican</a> <a href="/tags/evangelical/" rel="tag">#Evangelical</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a> </p><p><a href="https://catecheticconverter.com/christians-are-supposed-to-be-left-behind" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="catecheticconverter.com/christians-are-supposed-to-be-left-behind"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">catecheticconverter.com/christ</span><span class="invisible">ians-are-supposed-to-be-left-behind</span></a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a> <a href="/tags/slop/" rel="tag">#slop</a> <a href="/tags/sloperator/" rel="tag">#sloperator</a></p>
Mozilla's new CEO is all-in on AI regardless of what Firefox users want: <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1050826/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>lwn.net/Articles/1050826/</a><br><p>Third: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.<br></p>He says the word "trust" a whole bunch of times yet intends to turn an otherwise nice web browser into a slop-slinging platform. I don't expect this will work out very well for anyone.<br><br>"It will evolve into a modern AI browser" sounds like a threat. Good way to start off on the right foot, new Mozilla CEO (sarcasm).<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/antifeatures/" rel="tag">#AntiFeatures</a> <a href="/tags/darkpatterns/" rel="tag">#DarkPatterns</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a> <a href="/tags/firefox/" rel="tag">#firefox</a> <a href="/tags/mozilla/" rel="tag">#mozilla</a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#NoAI</a><br>
Edited 109d ago
Regarding last boost: "Firefox For Web Developers" is out here urging me to stop using Firefox.<br><br><a href="/tags/mozilla/" rel="tag">#Mozilla</a> <a href="/tags/firefox/" rel="tag">#Firefox</a> <a href="/tags/darkpatterns/" rel="tag">#DarkPatterns</a><a href="/tags/antifeatures/" rel="tag">#antifeatures</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#NoAI</a> <a href="/tags/noaiwebbrowsers/" rel="tag">#NoAIWebBrowsers</a> <a href="/tags/aicruft/" rel="tag">#AICruft</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a><br>
Am I to understand from this that SearXNG is in the process of becoming AI poisoned?<br><br><p><a href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2163" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2163"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/searxng/searxng/iss</span><span class="invisible">ues/2163</span></a><br><a href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2008" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2008"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/searxng/searxng/iss</span><span class="invisible">ues/2008</span></a><br><a href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2273" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2273"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/searxng/searxng/iss</span><span class="invisible">ues/2273</span></a></p>The last issue hasn't been active since 2023 but the 1st one has been active recently and the middle one last summer.<br><br><a href="/tags/searx/" rel="tag">#SearX</a> <a href="/tags/searxng/" rel="tag">#SearXNG</a> <a href="/tags/searchengines/" rel="tag">#SearchEngines</a> <a href="/tags/alternatesearchengines/" rel="tag">#AlternateSearchEngines</a> <a href="/tags/metasearchengines/" rel="tag">#MetaSearchEngines</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/aipoisoning/" rel="tag">#AIPoisoning</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="/tags/claude/" rel="tag">#Claude</a> <a href="/tags/perplexity/" rel="tag">#Perplexity</a><br>
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<p>AI generated (bad) content aka aislop is killing reality, truth, information, internet, search engines like google, ... We are all fucked... 😮🤔 (Accept we use reputable media/platforms like public broadcast.)</p><p>With the new Sora 2 app by openai you just need to enter some text to generate realistic looking videos and publish them online.</p><p>Half of worldwide internet traffic is bot generated. internet is becoming ainternet. 💩</p><p>4 current analyses:</p><p>Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World by gizmodo<br><a href="https://gizmodo.com/fake-protest-videos-are-the-latest-ai-slop-to-go-viral-in-maga-world-2000669656" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="gizmodo.com/fake-protest-videos-are-the-latest-ai-slop-to-go-viral-in-maga-world-2000669656"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gizmodo.com/fake-protest-video</span><span class="invisible">s-are-the-latest-ai-slop-to-go-viral-in-maga-world-2000669656</span></a><br>text</p><p>AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet by kurzgesagt <br><a href="https://youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?si=ohQnrkJTYURYILkk" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?si=ohQnrkJTYURYILkk"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?si=ohQnrk</span><span class="invisible">JTYURYILkk</span></a><br>video, 12 minutes</p><p>SORA: the all Ai TikTok Clone. will slop end creativity? by CaseyNeistat<br><a href="https://youtu.be/I1dW-nZqhew?si=B6eS0zLmxGWMstIb" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="youtu.be/I1dW-nZqhew?si=B6eS0zLmxGWMstIb"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/I1dW-nZqhew?si=B6eS0z</span><span class="invisible">LmxGWMstIb</span></a><br>video, 7 minutes</p><p>german/french: <br>KI: Der Tod des Internets by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sixtus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sixtus</span></a></span> <a href="https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/122187-000-A/ki-der-tod-des-internets/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.arte.tv/de/videos/122187-000-A/ki-der-tod-des-internets/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.arte.tv/de/videos/122187-0</span><span class="invisible">00-A/ki-der-tod-des-internets/</span></a> <br>video, 51 minutes</p><p><a href="/tags/sora2/" rel="tag">#sora2</a> <a href="/tags/sora/" rel="tag">#sora</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/fakenews/" rel="tag">#fakenews</a> <a href="/tags/misinformation/" rel="tag">#misinformation</a> <a href="/tags/debunking/" rel="tag">#debunking</a> <a href="/tags/openai/" rel="tag">#openai</a> <a href="/tags/maga/" rel="tag">#maga</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#aislop</a> <a href="/tags/kurzgesagt/" rel="tag">#kurzgesagt</a> <a href="/tags/gizmodo/" rel="tag">#gizmodo</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/truth/" rel="tag">#truth</a> <a href="/tags/reality/" rel="tag">#reality</a> <a href="/tags/google/" rel="tag">#google</a> <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#chatgpt</a> <a href="/tags/ainternet/" rel="tag">#ainternet</a></p>
Edited 178d ago
<p>So now <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> is <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AIslop</a> now...</p><p><a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/38072" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/38072"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i</span><span class="invisible">ssues/38072</span></a></p><p>I'll not use Mastodon as much as I currently use it now, but at least is way better than Big Tech stuff, so it's not a total loss.</p><p><a href="/tags/slopware/" rel="tag">#slopware</a></p>
<p>Me listening to Search Engine while running errands through tricky astral passageways.</p><p>(Under 60kb!)</p><p>Slop? Art? Both? Neither? I do enjoy messin' with AI. There's merriment to be had also a time to turn it ALL OFF.</p><p>(If at all curious: created using local generative txt-to-image AI, Stable Diffusion variant with Gimp for touch ups, open source software on Debian Linux with legacy RTX GPU. No cloud, no SaaS, no fee, no subscription, no token limits.)</p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#aislop</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/astralplanes/" rel="tag">#astralplanes</a> <a href="/tags/robertsmith/" rel="tag">#robertsmith</a></p>
Edited 77d ago
This is a long time coming. I've been posting about the decline of arXiv's CS category for a long time now, and even had a few conversations with someone I know who works there about it. Personally, I think the slop started in 2018--prior to generative AI slop--when the CS category at arXiv began the unsustainable exponential growth in submissions that has continued till today. An increasing number of what amounted to corporate whitepapers and other marketing materials were being posted on arXiv to give them the appearance of scientific credibility. There was a fairly clear arXiv-to-Nature pipeline. Citation counts were pumped as some of the scientometric services count arXiv "articles" as citations, and some researchers adopted the bad scholarly habit of citing arXiv preprints instead of the final publication. It was and still is a mess. My understanding is that arXiv was meant as a place for people to put high-quality but pre-publication articles, but at least in the CS category it's drifted quite far from that.<br><br>I gather they've finally taken this measure because of the preponderance AI-generated slop, but with any luck these other issues will improve too. The arXiv press release states “Review/survey articles or position papers submitted to arXiv without this documentation will be likely to be rejected and not appear on arXiv” so it does sound like they are acknowledging the other problems and intend to enforce their rules more strictly in the future.<br><br>"arXiv says it will no longer accept Computer Science papers that are still under review due to the wave of AI-generated ones it has received."<br>From <a href="https://infosec.exchange/users/josephcox/statuses/115486903712973154" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="infosec.exchange/users/josephcox/statuses/115486903712973154"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">infosec.exchange/users/josephc</span><span class="invisible">ox/statuses/115486903712973154</span></a><br><br><a href="/tags/arxiv/" rel="tag">#arXiv</a> <a href="/tags/preprint/" rel="tag">#preprint</a> <a href="/tags/cs/" rel="tag">#CS</a> <a href="/tags/spam/" rel="tag">#spam</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a><br>
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<p>Listening to Search Engine announce the Forkiverse while workin' transit, bending space and time to move people, mass and freight in an instant.</p><p>File size:45 kb.</p><p>(Created with local generative txt-to-image AI. Stable Diffusion variant with help from Gimp, on Debian Linux using a legacy RTX GPU. No cloud, no SaaS, no subscription, no limits)</p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/fiberarts/" rel="tag">#fiberarts</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#aislop</a> <a href="/tags/astralslop/" rel="tag">#astralSlop</a> <a href="/tags/astralplanes/" rel="tag">#astralplanes</a> <a href="/tags/funny/" rel="tag">#funny</a> <a href="/tags/spacingguild/" rel="tag">#spacingguild</a> <a href="/tags/searchengine/" rel="tag">#searchengine</a></p>
Edited 75d ago
<p>Love ya all! But clockin' out of this timeline for a while to visit some buds cliff living in a nearby parallel universe with GREAT views of astral planes.</p><p>Yes, still listening to <a href="/tags/searchengine/" rel="tag">#searchengine</a> (Hey small countries DON'T fall for that petro-dollar TRAP!).</p><p>Image file size: 43kB!</p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/fineart/" rel="tag">#fineart</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#aislop</a> <a href="/tags/aiart/" rel="tag">#AIart</a> <a href="/tags/astralplanes/" rel="tag">#astralplanes</a> <a href="/tags/travel/" rel="tag">#travel</a> <a href="/tags/astraltravel/" rel="tag">#astraltravel</a> <a href="/tags/flying/" rel="tag">#flying</a> <a href="/tags/astral/" rel="tag">#astral</a></p>
Edited 71d ago
<p>A cry of anger and anguish swept over the cubicles and made many a head pop up and look around; like meerkats looking for danger.</p><p>The noise, coming from one of one of the few non-cubicle offices, subsided, presumably to let the producer draw some air, and was replaced by a different scream.</p><p>"STEEEEEEEEEEVE!"</p><p>I sipped my coffee and marveled at the screamability of my name, then I made my way to the office with a quick detour to the coffee machine.</p><p>I knocked on the flimsy door and entered without waiting.</p><p>"Hey Ronald, what's up?"</p><p>"There's ADS in our software!" Ronald pointed at an email on his screen showing a photo of our main screen with an ad for an exotic spa.</p><p>"Oh, Copilot must've put that in there; I forwarded you the new terms of service, they now do ads, too."</p><p>"Didn't you CHECK the code?" A little bit of spittle landed on Ronald's screen. I took another sip of coffee.</p><p>"Claude checked, said the code was fine."</p><p>I think Ronald needs to see someone for his blood pressure, a vein on his temple was undulating under the skin.</p><p>"DID. YOU. NOT. CHECK?"</p><p>I sighed.</p><p>"AI use is mandatory, remember? Also: we are not allowed to change Copilot's code anymore. It's in the new terms of..."</p><p>Ronald interrupted me with another guttural scream and more spittle.</p><p>My coffee was getting cold anyway.</p><p><a href="/tags/microfiction/" rel="tag">#microfiction</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#aislop</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#enshittification</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/smallstories/" rel="tag">#smallstories</a> <a href="/tags/tootfic/" rel="tag">#tootfic</a></p>
<p>This is truly glorious <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a> from <a href="/tags/microslop/" rel="tag">#Microslop</a> in their "Introduction to Github" course.</p><p>I don't know why Tim is working in the opposite direction, but I can see that he never once "morges" his code back into develop, let alone doing it "continvoucly"</p><p><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">learn.microsoft.com/en-us/trai</span><span class="invisible">ning/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow</span></a></p><p>Update:</p><p>It looks as though after 4-5 months the page has been updated, but if you want to see the image in situ still then the way back machine has you covered.</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20260216165612/https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="web.archive.org/web/20260216165612/https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2026021616</span><span class="invisible">5612/https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow</span></a></p>
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<p><a href="https://nebula.tv/videos/jordanharrod-should-ai-be-open-source/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="nebula.tv/videos/jordanharrod-should-ai-be-open-source/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nebula.tv/videos/jordanharrod-</span><span class="invisible">should-ai-be-open-source/</span></a><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv11xM0HgWo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv11xM0HgWo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv11xM</span><span class="invisible">0HgWo</span></a><br><a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#opensource</a> <a href="/tags/openai/" rel="tag">#openAI</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AIslop</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <a href="/tags/osi/" rel="tag">#OSI</a> <a href="/tags/technofeudalism/" rel="tag">#technofeudalism</a></p>