alt Hacker News"AI slop" is an internet meme that bears a strking resemblance to another, older meme, "goyslop"; why is it such a stretch to believe the former derived from the latter? "AI slop" was being used on 4chan as far back as November, 2022 on /g/:
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/89758234/#q89758967
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/89911387/#q89931883
It also saw its first use that month on /pol/, though I won't link to the archived threads (for obvious reasons). Unless you can provide earlier prior art, the most likely etymology of the term is 4chan, November, 2022, derived from "goyslop."
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Nah... I've heard the term slop used all my lifetime. Very common word, as is "sloppy". In fact, I'd connect it with sloppy in the sense of poor workmanship.
Okay. If "slop" is a shortened form of "goyslop", then what's the etymology of "goyslop"? Is it just a wholly novel sequence of unrelated letters?
Same source shows 'slop' alone being used as far back as 2008: https://desuarchive.org/_/search/text/slop/order/asc/ Some of these uses are the verb form, but most are the noun form, being used in pretty much the same sense it has been used for generations, and is in use today.
Because we’ve fed slop to pigs since the 1600s? It’s a commonly known word with a clearly understood meaning. It didn’t come from or is a shortening of goyslop, you’re just flat out wrong.