If you feel like you're seeing a lot more AI-generated slop on YouTube, you're right.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The hand-wringing over ‘AI slop’ has reached a fever pitch, but what is it, really? If you’re even minimally ...

Like most tools, generative AI models can be misused. And when the misuse gets bad enough that a major dictionary notices, you know it has become a cultural phenomenon. On Sunday, Merriam-Webster ...

Webster names slop its Word of the Year for 2025, we trace the term’s journey from mud, dung, and gruel to the $18 desk lunch ...

SLOP—shorthand for synthetic, low-quality, overproduced content—has become the catchall for the flood of AI-generated media saturating our feeds. It’s easy to think of SLOP as just a volume problem; ...

Some of the most popular spots on the web battled an influx of AI-generated slop throughout 2025. Some of the most popular spots on the web battled an influx of AI-generated slop throughout 2025. is a ...

It’s hard to believe that just a few short years ago a video of Will Smith eating spaghetti generated by ModelScope, a text-to-video AI model, was the peak of AI slop. A number of artist projects are ...

Slop works are celebrated for their stupidity and clumsiness -- which are often amplified by strange juxtapositions of culture memes." Gioia's purpose was to analyze "the new aesthetics of slop," but ...

Merriam-Webster has selected "slop" for the dictionary company's 2025 word of the year. The leading lexicographers define slop as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity ...