Neurotica (@schwarzgerat.bsky.social)

slop is something that takes more human effort to consume than it took to produce. When my coworker sends me raw Gemini output he’s not expressing his freedom to create, he’s disrespecting the value of my time ↘️ quoting AI Liker Georg (@avengingfemme.bsky.social): probably orthogonal to your view of slop but: bsky.app/profile/aven...

Rude Slop Behaviour

This essay aims to introduce social stigma around certain types of AI use, or at the very least, reduce the amount of slop I receive. What is slop? I like the deepfates definition: Watching in real time as “slop” becomes a term of art. the way that “spam” became the

AI slop

AI slop is digital content made with generative artificial intelligence that is perceived as lacking in effort, quality, or meaning, and produced in high volume as clickbait to gain advantage in the attention economy, or earn money. 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. "Slop" was selected as the 2025 Word of the Year by both Merriam-Webster and the American Dialect Society.

AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality

Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.

AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it? | Arwa Mahdawi

Low-quality ‘slop’ generated by AI is crowding out genuine humans across the internet, but instead of regulating it, platforms such as Facebook are positively encouraging it. Where does this end, asks Arwa Mahdawi

How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science

Preprint repositories and conference organizers are having to counter a tide of ‘AI slop’ submissions.

It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich

Feeding slop is an act of war

AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone

Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits.

The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact

Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.

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In the Battle for Attention

Slop is gaining ground. Low-quality content, including AI-generated trash, is advancing on all fronts for attention.

Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks

3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.

Yap: a particular kind of slop

Writing code comments has always been hard, because communicating is hard. It's hard to not assume context. It's hard to use the right terminology consistently. It's hard to even put comments in the right spots to begin with. It generally takes me several iterations of rewording a comment to get something I'm happy with. I'll write something lousey that takes 5 times as long to read as it should, and then read it. Then I'll remove a couple sentences, tweak what remains and do it again.