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AI companies and users of AI are littering all aspects of public space with "AI slop", but does this term reflect what it really is? We have terms like visual pollution, sound pollution, etc. In a way, "AI pollution " seems a proper term, but AI also pollutes meaning, like with AI generated text. Is AI pollution a new form of "microplastics"? Everywhere and in everything?

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[-] jh29a@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

I think this is an interesting philosophical question, because I would guess that because I think AI slop and AI pollution are the same thing, I react the same way to either of the spellings. But I can also immediately see how AI pollution sounds worse because it's connected to pollution. In conclusion, I should not think of myself as more "rational" than I am, where by rational I really mean "able to control the meaning categories that my brain uses".

this post was submitted on 23 May 2026

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