Remember that kid in school who INSISTED on asking their parents before doing ANYTHING? Well, they may still be doing that, and now they have ANOTHER “person” to ask.
There’s a new term for people who have become super reliant on A.I., especially OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
People who have to ask ChatGPT before doing anything are picking up the nickname: “Sloppers.”
On TikTok, someone said, “A friend has coined the word ‘Sloppers’ for people who are using ChatGPT to do everything for them, that’s incredible verbiage. Slopper? That’s such a good slur.”
For example, a man told a story about how he was on a first date, but was surprised when the date pulled out ChatGPT on her phone to ask it what she should order. She’s a “Slopper,” and there was no second date.
Why “Slopper”? It’s apparently a reference to “A.I. slop”, the “often-garbled low-effort content online.” (Meaning ChatGPT, and its weird way of talking, not humans, who also pump a lot of low-effort content online.)
Of course, ChatGPT is still in its infancy, so there’s plenty of time to settle on a derogatory name for people who can’t do anything without talking to A.I.
Someone else suggested “BOTLICKER.” (Which is MUCH BETTER in my opinion.) And someone else proposed, “Second-hand thinker.”
Being the “slopper” or “botlicker” that I am, I asked ChatGPT what we should call these people, and it came up with a series of options. “Prompt Zombie”, “Bot Baby”, an “ADL”, or “A.I. Dependent Lifeform”, “Gen-A.I. Sheep”, “A.I. First Responder”, “Decision Delegator”, and ChatGPT being your “Thought Partner, with Benefits.”
(Speaking of A.I., there’s a new poll out on how it’s used, and the top five are: Searching for information, coming up with ideas, work tasks, helping to write emails, and creating or editing images.)
(Futurism)
