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by voakbasda 765 days ago
I imagine the use of this term comes from the name for the leftover foodstuff that gets fed to pigs, usually from a bucket.

As a small scale pig farmer, I approve of the use of this term; I care enough about the welfare of my pigs that I would never risk feeding them anything that would be considered slop. Plus, pigs fed with slop usually end up tasting bad, because they are what they eat.

A wonderfully apt metaphor that reflects both the voracious appetites of modern AI systems and the resulting quality of the results.

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See also: swill