Problem is when people started labelling anything made by AI as slop regardless of quality. Ironically even stuff made by humans that is too good is sometimes labeled as slop because people suspect AI was involved.

It's definitely an appropriate word for the large amount of AI generated content being put out on the Internet, but it's also over used in a lot of cases

You mean you must submit good code. Whether it's created by an AI model or a human, it needs to be reviewed and good quality. Letting an AI submit piles of slop code is bad, but not all AI code is slop

That's true, but I'm not sure how much that applies. There was undoubtedly human input and code is a bit different from artwork. If you take something that doesn't have copyright applied to it and then modify it, it seems like it would be able to be licensed

That's no problem, I'll just have my firefox AI agent...wait a minute!

I think you're missing the point here.

If you google "hack the Mexican government" you're not going to get any meaningful results, but if you prompt an advanced LLM to do so then apparently it can deliver results. Claude is like a script kiddie on steroids in this case since it knows all the existing vulnerabilities and tools to exploit them which will do the trick for a lot of targets.

It's lowering the bar for hackers so they don't even have to know much about computer system

It is actually since this is discussing a different set of safety guidelines.

Good point! Developers never created insecure or inefficient code before AI so this could be a major problem

Regardless of training the AI on it, they obviously made a copy of the book when they digitized it

That's half of what people use generative AIs for though Making up stories or code or whatever

I think that was just a comment on the first known usage of the word (mud) rather than the later pig slop which is pretty clearly listed in the definition

Yes, that's the origin of the word. Maybe you can see the connection to the more recent variation of the definition?

Probably because it's become popular enough for the ones in charge to take note of it. Just because it's a dictatorship doesn't mean it's a competent government

Good thing about podcasts is you can listen to them on the go where the point isn't to get the gist of information, it's to be entertained without visuals.

If you're thinking in arrays, you're thinking too low level. Obviously the underlying code supports arrays and more advanced users can even use them in templates via the front end. The use cases for having a full GUI based abstraction of more complex data structures can probably be counted on one hand so for those cases it's easier to just let the users access via templates or custom components

Ah that sounds similar to ESPHome or Tasmota. They have their uses, but a centralized system is needed for more complex automations.

Most users don't want to be coding to create automations. Systems like HomeAssistant (and NodeRed) have done a good job abstracting the underlying code and data to something that's more user friendly for non-developers. Most people don't even know what an array is