{"id":4091,"date":"2025-07-29T19:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/sloppers-ask-ai-everything\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T19:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:12:05","slug":"sloppers-ask-ai-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/sloppers-ask-ai-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"People Are Becoming “Sloppers” Who Have to Ask AI Before They Do Anything"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Power users of OpenAI’s ultrapopular AI chatbot ChatGPT have picked up a brand new nickname, and it’s unflattering.<\/p>\n

As spotted by media critic and writer Rusty Foster on his excellent Today in Tabs<\/em> newsletter<\/a>, people who constantly use ChatGPT to do virtually anything have garnered the moniker of “sloppers.” (And no, we’re not talking about a cheeseburger<\/a> that’s smothered in a red or green chile.)<\/p>\n

“A friend of mine has coined the word ‘Sloppers’ for people who are using ChatGPT to do everything for them,” TikTok user intrnetbf said in a recent video<\/a>, which went viral on the platform. “That’s incredible verbiage. Slopper? That’s incredible verbiage.”<\/p>\n

For instance, Foster pointed to one viral video<\/a> in which a man recounted going on a first date with a woman\u00a0\u2014\u00a0but was surprised when she pulled out ChatGPT on her phone and asked it what she should order off the menu. (“There was no second date,” he concluded.)<\/p>\n

The term “AI slop<\/a>” has become synonymous with often garbled low-effort content online, from ChatGPT’s weird way of talking<\/a> to a barrage of junk littering platforms like Facebook<\/a> and Pinterest<\/a>.\u00a0Turning it into a noun evokes the “glassholes” who were lampooned for walking around<\/a> with Google’s head-mounted Glass cameras more than a decade ago \u2014 and puts the focus on how new technology is changing the way we relate to others, and even now perhaps to ourselves.<\/p>\n

We should point out that “slopper” as a term isn’t quite settled; commenters were quick to chime in with alternative ideas.<\/p>\n

“Botlicker is my personal favorite,” one user commented.<\/p>\n

“Someone said ‘second hand thinker’ and I still think about that daily,” another user added.<\/p>\n

While it’s not much more than a bit of lighthearted fun, the coining of the term highlights growing anti-AI resentment, with users pointing out the many drawbacks of overrelying on the tech, from rampant hallucinations greatly undermining the validity<\/a> of the information we find online, to potentially dangerous rabbit holes that can lead users to “ChatGPT psychosis<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Users are also growing wary of the tech replacing human workers, artists, and content creators, with tech company CEOs experiencing increasing blowback<\/a> for boasting about their efforts to automate jobs.<\/p>\n

Just last week, subscribers to the iconic fashion and lifestyle magazine Vogue\u00a0<\/em>voiced their disgust<\/a> after spotting a double-page ad for the brand Guess, prominently featuring an entirely AI-generated model.<\/p>\n

Now, people are getting fed up with friends and family who are using ChatGPT as a crutch, fielding every query to the chipper-sounding \u2014 and frequently wrong<\/a> \u2014 personal concierge.<\/p>\n

In his newsletter, Foster wrote about the important distinction between “language” and “thought” now that LLMs have become incredibly good at outputting believable-sounding language. Despite their advertised prowess, though, the tech still falls far short of the kind of reasoning humans are capable of.<\/p>\n

The tech represents a major test for our critical thinking skills, allowing bad actors to double down on the proliferation of dangerous disinformation<\/a> and conspiracy theories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s a test that we’re failing, Foster argued.<\/p>\n

“ChatGPT is the ultimate ‘cultural product of the postmodern era,’ and very few of us have been inoculated with a theory of mind that distinguishes language from thought,” Foster concluded in his newsletter. “Every sign points to a full-blown slopper pandemic ahead.”<\/p>\n

More on ChatGPT:<\/strong> If You’ve Asked ChatGPT a Legal Question, You May Have Accidentally Doomed Yourself in Court<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The post People Are Becoming “Sloppers” Who Have to Ask AI Before They Do Anything<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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