slop
noun
unwanted and unasked for AI-generated content
What does slop mean?
Slop refers to AI-generated content, from sound to images to social media profiles, viewed as unwanted and unasked for by those who encounter it.
Examples of slop
Think about it: AI learns from internet data. But if the internet is increasingly flooded with AI-generated junk, then future AI models will be trained on slop, producing even sloppier results. We’re already knee-deep in the slop—and it’s rising.
—Becca Caddy, TechRadar, 5 Mar. 2025
… Facebook, Google, and TikTok are increasingly full of badly automated slop that’s making the internet less useful, not more.
—But in recent days, a bevy of AI-generated people have overwhelmed my Facebook feed. … The posts in question come from a variety of AI slop Facebook pages I didn’t ask to follow. The page names, such as “Nature and Animals,” “The Newstoday,” and “Dogs World,” have little or nothing to do with the topics of the posts. And those topics are, well, bizarre.
—Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has deleted a host of fake social media profiles generated by artificial intelligence after a backlash against what Gizmodo called an invasion of “AI-powered slop”.
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Where does slop come from?
Slop, as used to refer to unwanted and unasked for AI-generated content, is a narrower development of a broader sense of slop currently defined in our dictionary as “a product of little or no value” as in “watching the usual slop on TV.”
How is slop used?
Slop is usually preceded by AI but not always. In its suggestion of difficult-to-avoid pervasiveness, it is similar to spam.
“Slop” is the term for the rising tide of low-quality, AI-generated content flooding digital platforms—think hastily assembled eBooks, generic cookbooks, or recycled summaries churned out by tools like ChatGPT. It’s not just noise; it’s a calculated exploit of scale, prioritizing volume over value.
—Using more electricity for new public transit has clear social value; generating AI slop is harder to justify.
—Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players have been accusing various loading screens and calling cards from the game of being AI-generated since it came out last fall, but it was only ever based on vibes and the occasional very convincing piece of seemingly obvious AI slop. Now Activision has admitted to using AI-generated assets in the hit multiplayer shooter on its Steam page.
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