AI slop

AI slop, also known as slop content or simply slop, is digital content made with generative artificial intelligence that is perceived as lacking in effort, quality, or meaning, and usually produced in high volume to gain advantage, to earn money, or to deceive people. It is a form of synthetic media usually linked to the monetization in the creator economy of social media and online advertising. Coined in the 2020s, the term has a pejorative connotation similar to spam. "" was selected as the 2025 Word of the Year by both Merriam-Webster and the American Dialect Society.

AI slop has been defined as "digital clutter", "filler content prioritizing speed and quantity over substance and quality", and "shoddy or unwanted AI content in social media, art, books [and] search results". Jonathan Gilmore, a philosophy professor at the City University of New York, describes the material as having an "incredibly banal, realistic style" that is easy for the viewer to process. The effect of increasing AI slop on the web has been likened to the increase in entropy as driven by the Second Law of Thermodynamics.