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sayrer

@simon It is an old term from the blog company days. They were churning out this kind of suff in like 2015 or so.

8 May at 0:23 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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Simon Willison

@sayrer Yeah? I've not heard it before

I think it still counts as a neologism here in terms of applying it to LLM output - "AI slop" if you like

8 May at 0:26 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
sayrer

@simon yeah, I couldn't find the reference, but they used to make fun of each other for it.

8 May at 1:02 | Open on mastodon.social
alys

@sayrer @simon i've also heard "chum" for specifically the spammy "articles" promoted at the bottom of some news sites.

8 May at 1:07 | Open on selfy.army
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delProfundo

@alys @sayrer @simon chum feels more like it to me. To lure in the opportunistic crawlers.

8 May at 2:09 | Open on aus.social
sayrer

@delProfundo @alys @simon as content, yes. but the thing was they would have some program write half of it, even the main one, not just the Taboola things at the bottom

8 May at 3:19 | Open on mastodon.social
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