Why this diner (and other local businesses) are filling your feed with AI slop

AI Slop Is Ruining Cute Animals on the Internet

Pet owners, rescue agencies, and wildlife groups are calling for new safeguards as AI makes it harder to tell whether animals, from polar bears to house cats, are real or fake.

AI is ushering in an age of personal media

It may be AI slop, but it's my AI slop.

Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI

AI is junk food for the mind: easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you.

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 Slop is Killing Online Communities

Like a young child coming home from kindergarten with their latest crayon scrawls, the internet is currently awash with people sharing their AI-generated work. And just like the young child’s drawings, much of that work should be proudly put up on the walls within the artist’s house—and no further.

Our minds did not evolve for AI

AI is mental junk food: tasty and tempting, but ultimately unhealthy — a cognitive hot dog

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

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.

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

Stop Clicking on Junk: How to Identify and Ignore AI-Generated Slop Today

The internet is slowly being flooded by AI slop. What is it and how can you avoid it?

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

Feeding slop is an act of war

"AI" is bad UX

teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...

AI video is moving beyond clip slop

AI companies don’t just want Hollywood using AI for video, but for everything.

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.