HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoUtter bullshit like thislemmy.worldimagemessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1172arrow-down123
arrow-up1149arrow-down1imageUtter bullshit like thislemmy.worldHonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square29fedilink
minus-squareChozo@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down12·9 months agoRight, but the current colloquial usage of the word, especially in the context of digitally-manipulated images, is AI-centered. People aren’t using the word “slop” to describe bad photoshops, they’re using it to describe bad AI-gen.
minus-squareRicky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 months agoWords can be used in multiple different, concurrent ways.
minus-squareentropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days ago…so the new meaning is losing meaning as people start to use the word more with its older meaning? Seems fine to me
Right, but the current colloquial usage of the word, especially in the context of digitally-manipulated images, is AI-centered. People aren’t using the word “slop” to describe bad photoshops, they’re using it to describe bad AI-gen.
Words can be used in multiple different, concurrent ways.
…so the new meaning is losing meaning as people start to use the word more with its older meaning?
Seems fine to me