Hmm, writing a thing and, without thinking about it, used the verb “enslopify”. I can’t be the first. I think it’ll catch on.
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@timbray My new favorite word.
@timbray ...and today I learned a new word or two
@[email protected] My issue with the word "slop" in this is that its translation in my language isn't immediate, because the closest (sbobba or brodaglia) aren't words we use much.
Meanwhile, google is wrong (translation online used to work, back in the good old days...):
Meanwhile, google is wrong (translation online used to work, back in the good old days...):
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@bovaz I'm guessing that Italian is very rich in food words? If so, is there something suggesting that a dish is liquid and tasteless?
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@[email protected] @[email protected] There's a place in Italy called Fonteblanda which caught my eye as the name can literally be translated as 'the bland spring'. It's not the only or even the most natural translation, but I love the head canon that the person who named it did so accidentally by declaring how tasteless the local spring was.
Anyway... I wouldn't use the term in this context both because it is actually a real place, and because spring water doesn't have the right negative connotations for translation
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@[email protected] @[email protected] right. That's what I mean. I can't really find the right negative/dismissive Italian word for it, especially among food related ones. I guess we just like and respect our food too much.
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@timbray Question from non-native english speaker 🙋♂️: Why with "en-"? Wouldn't "slopify" or "enslop" describe the process of enriching content with AI BS enough? Am I missing meaning?
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@timbray Yep. It's there with enslopifying, and enslopification.😊
@timbray I used "enslopification" in an ail this afternoon. Pretty clearly not something I concocted from whole cloth, and yes I will do what I can to spread 'enslopify' as that's too good not to share.
@timbray *Captain Picard voice* Computer, enslopify!
Shouldn't this be written "ensloppify"? Or does "slop" not have a relationship to "sloppy"?
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@glitzersachen You're probably right but it's probably too late.
@timbray it's a perfectly cromulent word
@timbray it's "model collapse", but same idea
@timbray I also saw the word "slopaganda" today.
@timbray Indeed.
Anticipating that wandering shop has a call for art submissions getting assembled, we wanted to be a little lighthearted about a strictly human made submission but recognize that there's a lot of good use of digital tools. I came up with "no pixelslop flingers".
Language evolves through its moments of need. 🤣
