‘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.
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.
Hack. When used to describe anything that some idiot realized was possible. For example, “I just discovered this amazing hack to save on my grocery bills. I buy garlic and potatoes then bury them in my yard. Six months later, I have more garlic and potatoes! Epic!!”
STFU
‘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.
What’s the context for “positive anymore”?
Anymore is intended to be used in a negative context. You can think of it as a substitution for “no longer”. Positive anymore is a blatant abuse, and would be better substituted for “nowadays” or similar.
Correct anymore: “I can’t stand it anymore.”
Positive (super wrong) anymore: “People’s grammar is really stupid anymore.”
Oh wow, I’ve never seen that but it makes me want to file a formal complaint.
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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!”
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!
I saw one where someone “broke their silence on attack on their house.” Their house had been egged with no evidence that they were specifically targeted for any specific reason.
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.
“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.
flamiera SLAMS new age SLOP words for their ubiquity
“Clanker”. For… reasons.
I do think it’s weird how we invented a slur for something before it even exists, even if ironically.
It’s such a Boomer word. It’s like what robots would be called in a 50s sci-fi novel. And it has nothing to do with the software it’s being applied to.
To me it just screams “I’m trying to be clever, but I’m actually demonstrating that i have no idea what I’m talking about”.
How about the more PC “Clanka?”
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Any violent or aggressive hyperbolic verb in all caps. “person DESTROYS argument for frobination”, “Unpopular politician WRECKED by simple argument (not demonstrated in this article)”
“left” and “right” in the context of social or political discussions.
Instantly know it’s an intellectual kindergartener speaking.
I’ve been sick of ‘unprecedented’ for a long time. It isn’t supposed to mean just ‘shocking’.
“Wild”
Just tired of seeing it.
Right now, that word makes me think of the start of this song
“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.
You sound like a pedophile, btw.
They introduced it. Shit, I forgot “narrative”. This is actually documented and can be proven.
