Slop cannon vs. slop canon: a one-letter distinction for the AI content era
emax · x · 2026-10-12
A neat piece of AI-era wordplay: a "slop cannon" is someone who blasts AI-generated content at colleagues and friends, while "slop canon" is when AI turns out to be right and you have to concede the storyline it invented.
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