Why Slop Will Flop - Part III - Our Relationship With Slop (and Yours)
Deleted: "Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella really wants you to stop calling AI "slop" in 2026"
I never - except inadvertently - "used" an LLM-based chatbot. I am aware that many sites have prompts and sections that passively call some API and render text from a chatbot, but those are not voluntary (for the visitor). They help fake "usage" or "demand" (as slop suppliers call it; they love the latter term), but that's misleading; they use this in hopes of a self-fulfilling prophecy and fund-raising from investors (citing "demand" which they created by tricking people and through involuntary bundling).
People dislike LLMs (they use a two-letter acronym as a catch-all buzzword) - especially their output - because it is dreary, full of falsehoods, and too confident (when when there is a lack of certainty - a concept that LLMs inherently lack).
This morning it seemed like IBM basically killed Red Hat and resurrected it as a slop company. This trend is horrifying because slop typically means massive debt. IBM is setting up Red Hat to fail, destruction is now assured.
If you still use slop for anything (e.g. writing E-mail, summarising text), by all means reconsider because public sentiments/feelings are fast changing and instead of "AI taking your job" we see users of "AI" causing their own problems (as users of slop are bound to get sacked; they're seen as dishonest and lazy). █