"AI slop" now has a friend. "Meat proxy" is a new way to describe too much reliance on AI content.
How "Meat Proxy" Is The Latest Hilarious AI-Related Pejorative
Meat Proxy is the latest AI-spawned term, referring to someone who blindly pastes AI outputs withing looking at them.
'Meat Proxy' Names Those Who Pass On AI Output Unchecked
"Meat proxy" describes people who relay AI-generated text, code or analysis to others without verifying it, a term coined by engineer Niklas Gruhn.
Meat proxy
A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.
Your Coworkers Are Becoming “Meat Proxies” for AI
A developer coined the term "meat proxy" to denote a person who blindly forwards AI-generated text or code without any form of review.
Meat proxy: why developers are fed up with AI replies
Developers use meat proxy to call out colleagues who forward unchecked chatbot text, saying it creates noise. Read what the term reveals
What is a 'meat proxy'? The new term for coworkers who blindly share AI output
"Meat proxy" refers to someone who sends outputs straight from Claude or ChatGPT without analyzing them. It's caught on with techies on X.
Don’t be a meat proxy
Niklas Gruhn coins an excellent new term - meat proxy - for people who blindly copy and paste the output of AI systems to their peers. By all means, prompt …
Are you a 'meat proxy'? The latest AI slang, explained.
If you send unreviewed ChatGPT outputs to your coworkers, this new insult may apply to you.
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
BBC World Service - The Explanation, The Media Show: Meet the 'meat proxies'
The humans who’ve become mouthpieces for text written by AI
Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women
Pinterest is facing an influx of AI slop designed to attract users to synthetic websites. Here's a glimpse into their tactics — and psyches.
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.
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 is ushering in an age of personal media
It may be AI slop, but it's my AI slop.
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?
