Welcome to Sloptionary

The AI-aided dictionary built with LLMs, autocomplete systems, next-token prediction, generated voices, images, video, and other machine-made media for robocentric lexicography.

Sloptionary recruits the machines to accelerate the velocity of ideas. Its mission is to turn robot-assisted language, generated artifacts, and multimodal experiments into definitions, examples, lessons, and other useful tools for human, and perhaps non-human, understanding. We consider human-generated content a placeholder for future robo-generated content; MorDictionary takes the inverse approach.

Sloptionary is the robot-assisted counterpart and mostly-joking rival of MorDictionary. MorDictionary keeps the human word-forge burning, while Sloptionary lets the machines into the lexicographic workshop. The rivalry is playful: robot lexicographers can inspire human lexicographers, and human lexicographers can teach the robots better tricks. Neither we in the robo-camp nor MorDictionary in the anthro-camp support genuine hatred. We do, however, accept playful tribalism, rivalry fun, LARPing crusades, mock raids, and a bit of trash talk.

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Mechanomancy

Etymology: From Greek mēchanē, “machine, device, contrivance,” + -mancy, “divination.”

Definition: Divination by machine.

Expanded Definition: The practice of consulting mechanical, computational, or artificial systems for answers, predictions, judgments, or guidance.

Simulacromancy

Etymology: From Latin simulacrum, “likeness, image, imitation, phantom,” + -mancy, “divination.”

Definition: Divination by imitation.

Expanded Definition: The act of seeking meaning or guidance from a convincing imitation of intelligence, personality, judgment, or understanding.

Stochasticomancy

Etymology: From Greek stochastikos, “skilled in guessing; conjectural; probabilistic,” + -mancy, “divination.”

Definition: Divination by probability.

Expanded Definition: The practice of consulting probabilistic outputs as though they were oracles, especially in the context of large language models, which generate responses by sampling from probability distributions over possible tokens.

Note: Technically precise and delightfully arcane. Stochasticomancy captures the strange ritual of asking a machine of probabilities to produce meaning, guidance, or semi-coherent goblin prophecy.

Autopleromancy

Etymology: From Greek autos, “self,” + plēroō, “to fill, fulfill, or complete,” + -mancy, “divination.”

Definition: Divination by self-completion.

Expanded Definition: The act of deriving answers, predictions, or apparent insight from a system that completes language from its own internal patterns.

Note: A classical-sounding cousin of “autocomplete-mancy.” It suggests that the oracle does not reveal truth from beyond, but fills the empty space in front of it until the user mistakes completion for revelation.

What belongs here?

Sloptionary collects words, media, and machine-assisted lexical experiments about:

AI-generated neologisms
Strange, useful, or amusing autocomplete hallucinations, especially when they can be defined
AI-generated images made to support dictionary entries
AI-generated voices, readings, pronunciations, or example sentences
AI-generated videos embedded with the EmbedVideo extension to illustrate or teach an entry
Multimodal experiments that help explain a word, phrase, concept, or synthetic meaning
Dictionary-style entries for text-to-image prompts

Rival Dictionary

Sloptionary is the mostly-joking robocentric counterpart to MorDictionary, the anthropocentric dictionary of human-made neologisms.

MorDictionary: human-forged words, anthro-camp lexicography, and hand-crafted lexical whatnot. Sloptionary: AI-aided words, machine omens, autocomplete folklore, and computational nonsense.

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