AI slop

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Noun

AI slop (uncountable)

  1. Content generated by generative artificial intelligence that is considered low-quality. Often characterized by hallucinations or a failure to meet the expectations of coherence and relevance.
    • 2024 August 21, Charlie Warzel, “The MAGA Aesthetic Is AI Slop”, in The Atlantic[1], archived from the original on 29 August 2024:
      As with the Facebook AI-slop farms, social media shock jocks churning out obviously fake, low-quality images don’t care whether they’re riling up real people, boring them, or creating fodder for bots and other spammers.
    • 2025 May 5, Spencer Kornhaber, “Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?”, in The Atlantic[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 5 May 2025:
      Now she’s been spending her days hanging out at KMUN, learning about the seemingly outmoded technology of terrestrial radio, which she thinks will gain a kind of “postapocalyptic” usefulness to humanity as the internet is overrun with AI slop.
  2. Any AI-generated output that prioritizes quantity over quality, resulting in a disorganized or cluttered presentation of information.

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