‘Slop’ - Commonly used to describe AI and is a common criticism of things people deem lacking in quality in entertainment mediums.
‘Slams’ - Commonly used in headlines to describe how critical someone’s views are towards another.
I’ve been sick of ‘unprecedented’ for a long time. It isn’t supposed to mean just ‘shocking’.
“AI”.
Back in my day, AI was another term for the computer in video games, like CPU.
Huh, usually those talks would turn into complaining about the “AS” in my experience.
So and so “breaks their silence” on a topic. What an overdramatic way to say someone made a statement about said topic. It makes it sound like people have been waiting for a prolonged period for them to say something and they’ve been inexplicably silent. On Monday morning, I saw a headline saying the Reiner family were breaking their silence on their parents murder. IT HADN’T YET BEEN 24 HOURS! HOW SOON SHOULD THEY HAVE SAID SOMETHING? someone responds to a situation as soon as could possibly be expected and headlines call it “breaking their silence”.
I’ve also seen headlines that say so and so “breaks their silence” on things nobody was asking for their thoughts on. Oh, someone hasn’t commented on every little thing that happens? They must have been holding something back.
FreshParsnip breaks her silence on this annoying headline trend. It was so weird she wasn’t saying anything until now!
“Wild”
Just tired of seeing it.
Right now, that word makes me think of the start of this song
Unprecedented. I cannot recall a single time that word was used in the past five years to describe a situation or event that was without precedent.
Since COVID, the use of that word has got unprecedented levels.
You mean on a CONTINUAL basis !!!
On the Slop part – I wonder if the people that go around making inaccurate accusations about things being AI know how absolutely ridiculous it makes them sound. It’s at the point where it’s so absurd that I have to wonder if it’s part of some kind of triple reverse sabotage effort to discredit the people who actually do take great offense to any kind of use of generative AI.
I’m at the point where I downvote every comment that’s nothing more than, “This is slop.” or “Is this AI slop?”
I’m reading that as, “Look how smart I am! Also, I’m part of your tribe so you should like me!”
‘POV’ - then proceeds to present something that isn’t a first person perspective.
Oh, and “positive anymore”. That’s such a bastardization. It makes me cry.
I’m with you on “slam” and any other pseudo-violent verb to make an otherwise milquetoast headline more attention-grabbing.
What really gets me is when it is applied to the mildest of vocal objections by some politician. Like, it’s not even clever wordplay, just dissent. None of this is worthy of the same vocabulary one would use to describe a WWE match, but here we are.
Sometimes, the news is kind of dull, and that’s okay.
“left” and “right” in the context of social or political discussions.
Instantly know it’s an intellectual kindergartener speaking.
“Optics”
Optics is the study of light or the instruments involved in manipulating it.
It does not work as a stand in for “perception”.
Saying “they are worried about the optics” is like saying “they are just worried about the camera” when you mean “they are worried about how it looks”.
It’s (yet another) dumb FOX fluff word that people have taken to use because they think it sounds smart and fancy. It’s not, it’s fucking dumb.
Edit: btw, it follows the pattern of other words imposed on the American psyche by FOX in the same vein as “slant”, “bias”, “spin” and “partisan”, all of which had their heyday until people caught on, and another one was needed for projecting the idea that truth is negotiable and that all sides and opinions are “equally valid” and a matter of opinion and motivated by personal agendas. I have been trying to make people aware of this for decades, it’s an impossible battle, it’s been an outspoken strategy of FOX and the Republicans for decades, and it makes me sick seeing how well it works and how easily it penetrates public discourse.
Wow ok you can hate the term but I think it’s nuts that you’re laying its prevalence at the foot of FOX news. It’s standard corporate buzz speak. There’s no politics here.
You sound a bit unhinged, tbh.
In germany “Fachkräftemangel” “lack of professional workers”. Ha! Id the job market is so bad and you’re looking for workers, then why laying off a lot and not hiring? What actually “is missing” is slave workers for the CEOs. 30 years experience but only 8€/hour pay and no vacation days
It’s over & bubble
Woke, it’s an American bullshit word that means whatever the speaker criticizes. It’s a shame that it got exported to other parts of the world.
It started as “I understand and acknowledge that our society has systemic inequality and I would like to change that”. Perfectly reasonable way of stating it succinctly. As in, “I woke up” to this fact.
Right-wing lunatics stole the term and make it “anything I don’t like”.
I know exactly when that became rampant. 2016, basically the year where society had a huge meltdown in the USA.
Right-wing people stole ‘Woke’ and associated it with SJWs and along with ‘snowflake’ too. To them, being ‘Woke’ meant that you’re aware of their bullshit and the bullshit being forced by the right-wing politics about how incredibly backwards they want to take the country into. Like by allowing racism again, xenophobia and whatnot. So, anything that worked against that, then you’re suddenly ‘Woke’ to them. ‘Snowflake’ is what they called you when you have feelings and emotions, whereas they are the ones trying to be tough and were told to pull things by the bootstraps all their life.
Ironic how the tables turned on that one where these right-winged people are going into sandwich shops trying to be intimidating with their military cosplay outfits. They clung onto that shit like their security blanket and if you take it away, then they’re the ones crying up rivers over it.
‘Slop’ is fine, it’s short and to the point and describes something for which we don’t quite have another word yet (in the context of AI) and which definitely needs to enter the public consciousness.
Agree on ‘Slams’ though.
