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this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2026
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Pseudoscience about capitalism going to magically fix climate change by doing nothing is slop.
I prefer slop to live in its own technical box of generative AI crap instead of broadening the word to the point it's just another meaningly pejorative like sus.
I know damned well that the term slop has been used since the 90s for food and at least the late 00s for other things. The term shovelware slop comes to mind. Note I don't remember the 90s I was a month old when it ended but I did watch a lot of 90s media so yeah.
You are aware of course that slop existed before generative AI and there are other things that are slop.
Knowing how extremely unscientific Kurzgesagt is the accusation of them using AI to create slop scripts is most likely true.
Seriously can anyone the Dyson Sphere video and not come away thinking this is written by morons who have no idea what they're talking about?
But you say the word "science" a bunch of times with a nice looking, animation as if we have self-replicating robots already, and every Liberal will buy it.
Can yo specifically point to some problematic content, because so far you've just complained
Literally read the comment