Slang & Culture
AI Slop
Low-quality, mass-produced AI-generated content flooding the internet, created carelessly and pushed on audiences that didn’t ask for it — the AI-era analog of “spam.”
Origin
Circulating in smaller online communities from around 2022; developer Simon Willison is most credited with popularizing it for a mainstream audience via his May 2024 blog post, though he himself credited an earlier post by user @deepfates. Named 2025 Word of the Year by both Merriam-Webster and the American Dialect Society.