AI is here to stay. There will most likley be some crash in the near future, but Pandaora is let the evil out of her the box and AI will remain part of our reality in some shape or form.
The way language goes i personally expect the word “slop” to change into a neutral term, maybe as a way to describe that something is using AI, but without the negative connotation the word carries today. I can imagine this to happen within the next five to ten years. There may very much be a Windows 12 add that empasizes how much slop they used to make it.
I suspect “slop” will come to mean anything the speaker, personally, doesn’t like. It’s already slowly heading that way; a lot of the anti-AI people already accuse any writing they hate as being AI generated, while giving a pass to whatever they personally appreciate. Recent studies show that a person’s intuition about if text is AI or not is approximately as accurate as a coin toss.
As evidenced by at least one person implying my original message was slop because they disliked it. I said AI without adding the appropriate curse words with it, so it’s my own fault i guess.
I can still see a positive transformation of the word slop over time. Many slurs have been adopted in the past and turned on their head. I belive it is called reappropriation.