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'Pink Slime' Is Infecting AI Chatbots Ahead of the Midterms
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I'm still no closer to understanding why it's called pink slime
It's a reference to Ghostbusters 2 and how people running those sites make everyone angry by spreading negativity
It’s related to meat products but I urge you not to google it.
Wait, are you fucking with me or is that real? I'm squinting at you so hard right now
Not so gullible after all are you.
You are correct, it's actually a reference to highly processed "pink slime meat" made by taking low quality meat meat scraps, chemically sterilizing them within an inch of their life and forcing them through a fine mesh at high pressure, then forming the resulting homogenized slime into a shape that vaguely resembles a real cut of meat. You know, low quality hot dogs, chicken cutlets and nuggets, hamburger, that kind of thing. Stuff that is technically "meat" but mostly the stuff you'd only eat if you were desperate.
I had to verify that you were at least partly right. For, to amend untruth with even greater untruth would be utterly diabolical and also a little funny
Totally fucking with you 😆
So... all of them?
What trash news are you reading?
There's loads of great independent news outlets in the US, that are run by people and don't accept money from corporations
tone it down.
You reply this immediately attacking me by assuming I'm reading some "trash" below your standards. Implying that I'm too stupid to recognize it as trash, unlike you....
Everyone thinks "their" news is the real, unbiased source. You are not immune to propaganda.
If you tell us that all media is trash, that makes us think you are oblivious to the good owns.
Maybe don't be so black and white. Not all news media is trash. There are loads of excellent journalists doing excellent work.
I thought pink slime was chicken nuggets
I think that’s the reference. As in these websites are just slime in the shape of news.
I mean that comes as absolutely no surprise at all. That’s entirely within my expectations.