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AI slop (n.) is low-quality content churned out in bulk by generative AI, usually to harvest clicks rather than to inform.
Programmer Simon Willison pushed "slop" into mainstream tech vocabulary in a May 2024 blog post, calling it the AI-era equivalent of spam.
AI slop (n.) is spam that learned to paint.
AI slop (n.) is a six-fingered grandma holding a cake, harvesting amens from people who never zoom in.
AI slop (n.) is content farming after the farmers were let go.
AI slop (n.) is a sentence that sounds like someone said it, until you go looking for the someone.
AI slop (n.) is a confident average of everything, addressed to no one.
AI slop (n.) is what you get when making something costs less than looking at it.
Merriam-Webster made "slop" its 2025 Word of the Year; the word meant soft mud in the 1700s and food waste in the 1800s before meaning AI junk.
A North Carolina man was charged with wire fraud for using hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs and bot listeners to collect over $10 million in streaming royalties.