blasé, descend. slop.A.I. “slop” can become a threat to A.I. itself

A.I. “slop” can become a threat to A.I. itself

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The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence has posed a conundrum: If A.I. learns from the internet, and the internet starts containing more artificially generated content, will A.I. start ingesting its own output? Researchers I spoke to described an unintentional feedback loop that can reduce the quality and diversity of A.I.-generated content in the long run.

Neighbors in Palm Beach See an Upside to All the Clamor
A security cordon and news trucks descended on the area around the president-elect’s Florida resort, but many residents were blasé about the activity.

The modern city was transforming humans, giving them a new relationship to time and space, inculcating in them a "blasé attitude", and altering fundamental notions of freedom and being:

slop¹

/slɒp/

verb

1. 1.

   (of a liquid) spill or flow over the edge of a container, typically as a result of careless handling.

   "water slopped over the edge of the sink"

   Similar:

   spill

   flow

   overflow

   run

   slosh

   splash

   splatter

   spatter
2. 2.

   British

   dress in an untidy or casual manner.

   "at weekends he would slop about in his oldest clothes"

   Similar:

   laze (about)

   laze (around)

   lounge (about)

   lounge (around)

   do nothing

   loll (about)

   loll (around)

   loaf (about)

   loaf (around)

   slouch (about)

   slouch (around)

   vegetate

   hang around

   hang about

   veg out

   mooch about

   mooch around

   slummock around

   bum around

   bat around

   lollygag

noun

1. 1.

   waste water from a kitchen, bathroom, or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand.

   "sink slops"
2. 2.

   North American

   sentimental language or material.

   "country music is not all commercial slop"

descend

dɪˈsɛnd/

verb

1. 1.

   move or fall downwards.

   "the aircraft began to descend"

   synonyms:

   go down, come down; More
2. 2.

   make a sudden attack on.

   "the militia descended on Rye"

blasé

ˈblɑːzeɪ/

adjective

1. unimpressed with or indifferent to something because one has experienced or seen it so often before.

   "she was becoming quite blasé about the dangers"