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1. add-sub-mul-div · 1790255147 · focus · HN ↗

   I wonder if they went straight to "AI" as an insult independently from the older generations, or if they were using "slop" like the rest of us but had to adopt a new insult because "slop" has been co-opted to refer to things that are terrible whether AI or not.

   1. samrus · 1790255491 · focus · HN ↗

      Slop meant cheap garbage meant for mass consumption before it was used for AI. The roots are actually antisemitic. 4chan's cooking board used "goyslop" to mean fast food and other cheap consumerist foods that they claimed the illuminati or jewish conspiracy or whateve fed to non jews to keep them unhealthy. Its crazy how often 4chan's neonazi rambling are the start of so many cultural phenomena. They supported trump way before he became a serious candidate in 2016

      1. tumult · 1790256271 · focus · HN ↗

         I looked up the etymology of "slop" and I did not find any reference to antisemitism.

         1. olmo23 · 1790257039 · focus · HN ↗

            <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Goyslop" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Goyslop

            1. cassianoleal · 1790257571 · focus · HN ↗

               &gt; The term is a compound word joining goy, a Hebrew and Yiddish word for a non-Jew or gentile,[4][3] and slop, meaning food waste or refuse of low quality

               So you&#x27;re telling me that a word which has &quot;slop&quot; in its origins is itself the origin of &quot;slop&quot;?

               This must be the first case of circular etymology!

               1. card_zero · 1790262239 · focus · HN ↗

                  There are a couple of other cases. Dog was once (1845, UK) slang for sausage, due to fears of dog meat. Then a hot sausage was a hot dog, and then hot dog was a sausage, and finally just dog was slang for a sausage again, with the sinister implication removed. I also found pepper, from Latin (from Sanskrit?), leading to pep, the thing a pepper does to you, leading back to pepper (a kind of pre-game warm-up in baseball designed to give players pep).

                  You might object that those are really back-and-forth, but so is the claim being made here about slop. (I kind of doubt the claim though.)

                  1. cassianoleal · 1790264549 · focus · HN ↗

                     :D TIL where &quot;hot dog&quot; comes from! Thanks! :D

                     I don&#x27;t think your examples apply though. The dog example is just dog meaning sausage, sometimes with a temperature quality added (or ignored), but always a sausage with no other connotations.

                     The pepper one, maybe a little, though according to Etymonline [0] pep is short for pepper, so it&#x27;s all the same really.

                     [0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.etymonline.com&#x2F;word&#x2F;pep" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.etymonline.com&#x2F;word&#x2F;pep

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