There's a bit of drama going on with the popular game manager Lutris right now, with users pointing out the developer using AI generated code via Claude.
The way y’all overuse the word “slop” is like calling all e-mail “spam.”
It’s more like calling automatically sent e-mails “spam”. From the PoV of the [software | e-mail] user saying the word, both [slop | spam] are undesirable, even if the [coder | marketing team] in question is doing it on purpose and with purpose, to further their goals of [pumping out more software | reaching a wider audience].
If any interaction with spicy autocomplete is treated as equally bad, to the point of aggressive mockery - no kidding people will tune that out.
For me at least the worst part isn’t using it, but trying to hide it. I don’t think it’s justified, even if some users return snide comments because of it.
When it comes to the usage of both words, that difference you listed is completely arbitrary and obviously irrelevant. People also use the word “slop” to refer to commercial software (see: “Microslop”) and “spam” to refer to any sort of undesirable email being mass sent, even if non-commercial.
Unless you’re trying to argue something else; that the slop in this specific case is more justified. Then refer to the top comment in the chain; frankly the main issue here is not adding slop to their software, it’s the eagerness to treat users as braindead trash undeserving transparency.
What? No. Software is something people go looking for and choose to download, unless we’re talking about malware which I think is fair to say is obviously outside the bounds of this conversation. Spam emails are forced on people without their asking or looking for them.
Yeah, and that’s totally a criterion people use when labelling something “slop” or not, right? Right??? Oh wait, no, it isn’t.
They’re not at all interchangeable or the same thing.
That is not even remotely close to what I said. Not bothering further with a liar (or worse) who distorts what others say.
It’s more like calling automatically sent e-mails “spam”. From the PoV of the [software | e-mail] user saying the word, both [slop | spam] are undesirable, even if the [coder | marketing team] in question is doing it on purpose and with purpose, to further their goals of [pumping out more software | reaching a wider audience].
For me at least the worst part isn’t using it, but trying to hide it. I don’t think it’s justified, even if some users return snide comments because of it.
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When it comes to the usage of both words, that difference you listed is completely arbitrary and obviously irrelevant. People also use the word “slop” to refer to commercial software (see: “Microslop”) and “spam” to refer to any sort of undesirable email being mass sent, even if non-commercial.
Unless you’re trying to argue something else; that the slop in this specific case is more justified. Then refer to the top comment in the chain; frankly the main issue here is not adding slop to their software, it’s the eagerness to treat users as braindead trash undeserving transparency.
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Yeah, and that’s totally a criterion people use when labelling something “slop” or not, right? Right??? Oh wait, no, it isn’t.
That is not even remotely close to what I said. Not bothering further with a liar (or worse) who distorts what others say.
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