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What are some non-AI examples of slop? (lemmy.world)

submitted 14 hours ago by Acamon@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Likely many other, I've been grossed out by some of the shit getting churned out with generative ai. But it's also made me notice some of the existing things that give me the same feeling.

Poorly translated stuff, as often seen on cheap Chinese imports, has the same uncanny valley awkwardness. It sounds like English, but it isn't what an actual human who spoke English would say. And if we want to talk about an algorithm that's gone rogue and is destroying the world while trying to fulfill some arbitary metrics, there's always late-stage capitalism...

Anyone else notice things like this?

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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 32 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

"Silverberg's Law"

Someone once asked science fiction writer Robert Silverberg why 90% of the SF stories they read were crap.

Silverberg replied that 90% of everything is crap.

[–] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 16 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

And that's why older media is usually better. Only the good parts have survived and the 90% has been forgotten.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The trouble is that a lot of the good stuff is forgotten as well.

Here are some movies you've probably never heard of.

"The Day of the Jackal" [original]

"The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3" [original]

"Silent Partner" Elliot Gould

"The 3 Musketeers" Raquel Welch and Oliver Reed.

"Little Big Man"

I never hear them mentioned but people will rewatch a Hitchcock movie fifty times.

[–] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 hours ago

Sadly true (and yeah, I didn't know about those movies)