AI slop
In 2025, Merriam-Webster and the American Dialect Society each chose a Word of the Year, and they chose the same one. It was slop. AI slop is digital material made with generative artificial intelligence that people see as lacking effort, quality or meaning. It is produced in huge volume, usually to catch attention or earn money. The term carries a sneer, much like the word spam. Where did the word come from, and why did it catch on so fast? Who earns money from the flood, and how do they do it? What happens when the flood leaves the screen and sends real people toward places and events that were never real? The answers run through social feeds, election campaigns, bookshelves, record charts and an Olympic opening ceremony.
First came the search for a name. Journalists and social media users floated "AI garbage", "AI pollution" and "AI-generated dross" as labels for the influx of low-grade text and images. None stuck the way "slop" did. The earliest uses of that word appear to date from 2022, when AI image generators first reached the public. Commentators on 4chan, Hacker News and YouTube used it as in-group slang.
The British programmer Simon Willison is credited with pushing the word into the mainstream after using it on his personal blog in May 2024. He has said it was in use long before he began promoting it.
Two moments in 2024 spread it further. In the second quarter, Google began using its Gemini model to generate answers to search queries, and the term gained popularity. By the fourth quarter, media headlines were widely criticizing the quantity of slop online. The word also bred compounds. "Microslop" appeared as a reaction to Microsoft building its Copilot chatbot into the Windows operating system.
Defining the thing is harder than naming it. A January 2026 academic article by Cody Kommers and five other scholars says AI slop has "so far resisted formal definition." They argue that no precise boundary separates slop from non-slop. Even so, they name three "prototypical properties": superficial competence, asymmetric effort and mass producibility.
Other descriptions are looser. Some call it "digital clutter" or "filler content prioritizing speed and quantity over substance and quality". Jonathan Gilmore, a philosophy professor at the City University of New York, points to an "incredibly banal, realistic style" that viewers find easy to process.
Kommers and his colleagues also list three "dimensions of variance". The first is instrumental utility, meaning why the item was made. The second is personalization, meaning whether it could interest only one person or a small circle of friends. The third is surrealism, which runs from realistic to "ludicrously implausible".
Art curator Francesco D'Isa objects to the idea that AI "produces only slop". He argues that most human production has "always been slop", and that the canon of art is "the surviving tip of an immense iceberg of forgotten, derivative, or simply boring creations".
On Facebook and TikTok, a single viral post can pay. AI image and video slop spread across social media largely because it can earn revenue for its makers, and Facebook has been hit hardest. The system rewards people in developing countries who make images aimed at audiences in the United States, because those audiences attract higher advertising rates.
One medical student in India said he made thousands of dollars each month from low-effort AI images on Instagram and Fanvue. His first attempt to go viral failed. He then reworked his posts to include MAGA rhetoric aimed at conservative American men, and he invented an AI influencer named "Emily Hart". He tried the same tactic with a progressive message, but he said audiences quickly rejected it as "AI slop".
Why does so much of it look so strange? Journalist Jason Koebler speculated in an article for 404 Media that some creators write prompts in Hindi, Urdu and Vietnamese, languages that are underrepresented in training data. Others may rely on erratic speech-to-text tools to turn their intentions into English.
A Kenyan creator described the pipeline to New York magazine. He asked ChatGPT for prompts such as "WRITE ME 10 PROMPT picture OF JESUS WHICH WILLING BRING HIGH ENGAGEMENT ON FACEBOOK". He then fed the results into a text-to-image model such as Midjourney.
In March 2026, a TikTok account called Fruit Love Island became one of the fastest-growing in the United States. It was an AI-generated parody of the reality show Love Island, starring anthropomorphic fruits. Its rise set off debate in online communities about making money from AI-generated work.
The math behind the strategy is simple. Creators post hundreds of items every week, and only one needs to gain traction. Easy online income is the pitch to newcomers. The volume has a vocabulary of its own: "slopper" was coined in 2025 for someone overly reliant on tools like ChatGPT. A 2025 report from the video editing company Kapwing ranked Korea first in the world in AI slop consumption, which experts link to the country's fast embrace of new technology.
Houseplant forums learned the cost early. AI-generated plant images and plant-care misinformation spread widely, and online retailers used AI pictures of flowers to sell seeds for plants that do not exist. Many houseplant communities banned AI-generated posts, but bots upload such large volumes that moderators struggle to keep up.
History took a harder hit. Facebook spammers were reported to be generating images of Holocaust victims with invented stories, even though only a handful of historical photographs were ever taken at Auschwitz. The posters were described as "slop accounts". The Auschwitz Memorial museum called the images a "dangerous distortion". History-focused Facebook groups have also been inundated with AI-generated "historical" photos.
Artists feel the theft personally. Michael Jones carves animals from wood with a chainsaw. His style was used as a source for AI images, and those images surfaced beside other people claiming to have made the sculptures. Jones called AI slop "a huge issue for carvers all over the world who are sadly missing out on the rightful credit exposure to their work..."
Children's video raised the sharpest alarm. In January 2026, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said reducing slop and detecting deepfakes were priorities for the year. A March 2026 New York Times investigation found that around 40% of videos recommended to children, on the main platform and on YouTube Kids, appear to be AI slop. Many have realistic or Cocomelon-style visuals and claim to be educational. They are disproportionately about the English alphabet, yet they show nonsensical, flashy scenes such as oddly proportioned horses hatching from eggs.
Around the same time, The 74 and Mother Jones reported on children's videos with disturbing material, with misinformation such as misspelled words and misidentified objects, and with dangerous behavior that children could imitate.
In August 2024, The Atlantic noted that AI slop was becoming associated with the political right in the United States. Users there were turning to it to bait engagement on social media, since the technology offered "cheap, fast, on-demand fodder for content". Campaigns also use it to win attention through volume.
In the first five months of Donald Trump's second term as US president in 2025, official government social media accounts carried several AI images of him. They showed him as the pope and as a muscular man brandishing a lightsaber. That same year, Wired called him "The first AI slop President". The magazine pointed to depictions of him as a fighter pilot and as a religious figure, and argued that this marked a new phase in political communication.
The pattern was visible before the 2024 election. In August 2024, Trump posted a series of AI images on Truth Social showing fans of the pop singer Taylor Swift in "Swifties for Trump" T-shirts. He also posted an AI image of Swift appearing to endorse his campaign. The images came from a conservative Twitter account, @amuse, which posted many such pictures before the vote. High-profile Republican figures such as Elon Musk, who has publicly endorsed generative AI, shared them.
After Hurricane Helene in 2024, Republican influencers such as Laura Loomer circulated an AI image of a young girl holding a puppy in a flood. They used it as evidence that President Joe Biden had failed to respond to the disaster. Republican activist Amy Kremer shared the image while acknowledging that it was not genuine.
Slop reached official documents too. The first version of the Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment, a children's health report from a commission led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., reportedly cited nonexistent and garbled references generated with AI.
During the disruption to food stamp distribution in the 2025 US government shutdown, anonymous users turned to OpenAI's Sora. They posted videos of "welfare queens" complaining, stealing and rioting in supermarkets. Many commenters seemed unaware the clips were AI-generated. Others acknowledged it but called the videos useful for pushing a narrative of widespread welfare fraud.
In October 2025, after the No Kings protests, Trump posted a video of himself flying a fighter jet and releasing feces on crowds of demonstrators. The crowd included Harry Sisson, a Democratic influencer. In April 2026, Trump posted a picture of himself depicted as Jesus. Evangelicals and Catholics widely criticized it, and he deleted the post hours later, claiming he believed it showed him as a doctor.
Foreign governments use the same tools. A study by the analytics company Graphika found that the Chinese and Russian governments have used AI-generated slop as propaganda. Content with fake influencers, known as "spamouflage", was linked to China. The videos often centered on divisive topics, with ulterior motives behind the material shown.
In February 2025, Trump shared an AI video on Truth Social and Instagram depicting a hypothetical Gaza Strip after a Trump takeover. Its creator said it was political satire. During the Gaza war itself, AI-generated media was used to exaggerate support for both sides and to draw sympathy with fake images of suffering civilians. Because generative AI tools restrict violent output, these pictures rarely show wounded people and focus instead on damaged buildings.
In November 2024, the Coca-Cola Company used AI to make three commercials for its annual holiday campaign. Casual viewers and artists reacted with immediate backlash. Alex Hirsch, creator of the television series Gravity Falls, criticized the decision not to hire human artists. The company replied that "Coca-Cola will always remain dedicated to creating the highest level of work at the intersection of human creativity and technology". It used AI-generated commercials again for its 2025 holiday campaign.
During the 2025 holiday season, McDonald's Netherlands released an AI-generated Christmas advertisement titled It's the Most Terrible Time of the Year. Viewers found it cynical, since it portrayed Christmas as the most terrible time of the year. The company switched off comments on YouTube and removed the first upload from public view, though reuploads stayed online.
Film marketing drew fire too. In March 2025, Paramount Pictures was criticized for an Instagram video promoting the film Novocaine, which used AI scripting and a robotic AI voice in the style of low-quality spam videos from content farms. A24 faced similar backlash over AI-generated posters for the 2024 film Civil War. One poster seems to show soldiers on a tank-like raft preparing to fire on a large swan, an image unlike anything in the film.
Activision, in March 2025, posted AI-generated advertisements and posters for fake games on Facebook and Instagram. The titles included "Guitar Hero Mobile", "Crash Bandicoot: Brawl" and "Call of Duty: Zombie Defender". Many people labelled them AI slop. The company later said the posts were meant as a survey of interest in possible titles. Advertisers also widely adopted the Italian brainrot AI trend to reach younger audiences.
At Super Bowl LX in 2026, the vodka brand Svedka aired an AI-generated commercial with two robots, apparently male and female, dancing at a club while drinking Svedka. Viewers criticized it heavily and many posted their disdain on social media. Svedka called the ad a collaboration between AI and human creativity, noting that the AI was trained on a TikTok video that won an open call for dance routines.
Some operations skip the brand entirely. In March 2026, researchers at the cybersecurity firm DoubleVerify identified a network of more than 200 websites publishing AI-generated articles and images. The operation, called "AutoBait", used templated prompts in a large language model, and its main purpose was to earn advertising revenue.
Event promotion shows the damage most plainly. Glaswegians who bought tickets to the 2024 Willy's Chocolate Experience saw fantastical promotional graphics, described as "AI-generated slop", in Facebook advertisements that included no genuine photographs of the venue. The event turned out to be held in a sparsely decorated warehouse.
In October 2024, thousands of people were reported to have gathered for a Halloween parade in Dublin that did not exist. The source was a listing on the aggregation website MySpiritHalloween.com, which used AI-generated material and appeared to use AI-generated staff pictures. The listing went viral on TikTok and Instagram. A similar parade had been held before in Galway, and Dublin had hosted parades in prior years, but none was planned for 2024.
An analyst said the site likely used AI "to create content quickly and cheaply where opportunities are found". The owner said, "We asked ChatGPT to write the article for us, but it wasn't ChatGPT by itself." The site had removed nonexistent events when venues contacted it, but in this case the owner said "no one reported that this one wasn't going to happen". Once the problem came to light, the page was updated to say the parade had been "canceled".
Online booksellers and library vendors now stock many titles written by AI and never curated by librarians. The digital media provider Hoopla, which supplies libraries with ebooks and downloads, carries generative AI books with fictional authors and dubious quality. Each checkout by an unsuspecting patron costs a library money.
Author Jane Friedman said she had to report 29 AI-written novels in a single week that used her name and likeness. Kindle responded by capping any one author at three novels per day. On Amazon, AI-generated mushroom foraging books are also on sale. They carry distorted AI images of mushrooms, text likely written by ChatGPT, and often fake authors. In 2023, the New York Mycological Society warned on social media that misidentification could "literally mean life or death".
In February 2023, the science-fiction magazine Clarkesworld had to close short story submissions temporarily after a surge of AI spam. Editor Neil Clarke blamed people outside the speculative fiction community who were trying to make easy money. He worried that the trend would raise barriers for new writers.
Science has not escaped. In 2024, the predatory journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology retracted an article that carried a generated image of a rat with absurdly large genitals, along with nonsensical text and diagrams. Scientists on social media had noticed it. In 2025, Nature's Scientific Reports retracted a peer-reviewed article on explainable AI for autism diagnosis, citing "an AI-generated figure" and other significant errors.
Scholars have invented words for the problem. David Berry uses the term scholarslop for AI-generated administrative writing in universities and quasi-academic texts. Glen Berman argues that AI-generated articles in scholarly journals are an "epistemic carcinogen" posing a major risk to the knowledge ecosystem.
Software felt the strain in January 2026, when the open-source command-line utility cURL ended its bug bounty program on HackerOne. The project had received a flood of false vulnerability reports. Founder and lead developer Daniel Stenberg shared examples, including one that claimed a critical vulnerability that did not exist. Many reports cited nonexistent changelogs, used code snippets that did not match real function signatures, or came from simple user error. Stenberg called the shutdown an "attempt to reduce the noise".
Offices have their own version. A Harvard Business Review study, done with Stanford University and BetterUp, found that employees were using AI tools to produce low-effort "workslop" that created more work for colleagues. During the study, 40% of participating employees received some workslop, and each incident took an average of two hours to resolve. BetterUp defines it as "AI-generated content that looks good, but lacks substance". A later Harvard Business Review study coined "trendslop", for the "propensity for AI to opt for buzzy ideas over reasoned solutions".
The corporate world became a target of slop jokes as well. For a time in March 2026, Microsoft banned the word Microslop on a Discord server dedicated to its Copilot AI tool.
Black Ops 6, a Call of Duty game, drew accusations of AI-made assets from the day it launched. Players pointed to loading screens, emblems and calling cards made by Treyarch and Raven Software. One zombies loading screen showed "Necroclaus", a zombified Santa Claus with six fingers on one hand and other irregularities. The previous entry, Modern Warfare III, was accused of selling AI-generated cosmetics.
In February 2025, Activision disclosed the use of generative AI in Black Ops 6 to comply with Valve's policies on Steam. Its product page states that "Our team uses generative AI tools to help develop some in game assets." Black Ops 7, the newest entry as of January 2026, continued the practice with Studio Ghibli-styled calling cards that fans criticized.
In 2024, Rovio Entertainment released an Android demo of Angry Birds: Block Quest with AI-generated loading screens and backgrounds. Players called it shovelware and disliked the AI images. The game was discontinued and removed from the Play Store. A 2025 report by AI and Games found that about 20% of games published on Steam in 2025 carry an "AI disclosure". The same report names an "AI shovelware problem", in which many games lean heavily on AI-generated visuals, dialogue and story elements of mixed or poor quality.
Film has its own cases. Late Night with the Devil used several low-quality AI images as interstitial title cards, including a skeleton with inaccurate bone structure and fingers that look disconnected from its hands. Some critics called this AI slop.
Streaming services have stumbled in their listings. Amazon Prime Video used a low-quality AI poster for the 1922 film Nosferatu that did not resemble Count Orlok as he appears in the film. A thumbnail for 12 Angry Men on Amazon Freevee showed 19 men with smudged faces, none resembling the film's characters. One synopsis briefly listed for Dog Day Afternoon read: "A man takes hostages at a bank in Brooklyn. Unfortunately I do not have enough information to summarize further within the provided guidelines." Amazon also published a recap of season one of the dystopian sci-fi series Fallout, then removed it after audiences found mistakes, including a claim that a scene set in 2077 took place in the 1950s.
Deutsche Telekom removed a series from its media offer after viewers complained about poor, monotonous German dubbing of a Polish original. It turned out the dubbing was done by AI.
Upscaling brought its own glitches. In March 2025, Carsey-Werner used generative AI to upscale Roseanne and A Different World, which distorted background text until it could not be read. Fans heavily criticized the decision. In March 2026, WildBrain used a generative AI upscaling model on The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, and when it aired on MeTV Toons, the opening title read "Suele Mario Bros".
In September 2024, Michael Smith of North Carolina was charged with wire fraud conspiracy. Prosecutors said he used hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs and bots to collect more than 10 million US dollars in royalties. Large uploads of AI tracks aimed at manipulating streaming royalties are a recurring pattern. In June 2025, Deezer estimated that as much as 70% of streams of AI-generated tracks on its platform were fraudulent.
In April 2024, Pink Floyd held a fan-made music video contest for tracks from the album Dark Side of the Moon, to mark its 50th anniversary. One of ten chosen entries, the video for "Any Colour You Like", was made with Stable Diffusion. Fans reacted against both the band and the submitter, citing its AI origin and its perceived low quality.
In November 2024, Kanye West released an unannounced music video for "Bomb", from Vultures 2. It featured AI-generated versions of his daughters, North West and Chicago West, racing through a desert in futuristic Cybertruck-like vehicles. North vocalized partly in Japanese and Chicago in a freestyle style. Many fans called the project "AI slop" and said they were uncomfortable with AI replicas of his children.
In July 2025, accusations spread that the indie band the Velvet Sundown was AI-generated. In only a few weeks it had gathered over 850,000 Spotify listeners. Critics noted that no performances by the band were on record, that its members had no social media presence, and that its promotional images looked fake. Deezer's AI detection tool flagged the music as 100% AI-generated.
Rolling Stone, which called the band "obviously fictional", reported that a spokesperson named Andrew Frelon had admitted the music was an "art hoax" made with the AI tool Suno. Frelon later said his own statement was a hoax and that he had no connection to the band. Within a week, the band's Spotify biography described "a synthetic music project guided by human creative direction, and composed, voiced, and visualized with the support of artificial intelligence", intended as "artistic provocation". By then it had over one million monthly listeners. A former Spotify employee gave two likely causes: Spotify now accepts payments to boost playlist placement, and playlists are increasingly chosen by algorithms rather than humans.
Impersonation is another route. In August 2025, AI-made releases appeared under the names of Americana and folk-rock musicians including Jeff Tweedy, Father John Misty and Blaze Foley, who died in 1989, along with some established US Christian musicians and metalcore bands. The fake releases shared similar AI-generated cover art and were credited to the same three record labels. Many listed "Zyan Maliq Mahardika" as songwriter, pointing to a single source. Spotify removed the tracks, saying they "violated our policy against impersonating another person or brand".
Charts have been swayed as well. In November 2025, the AI-generated song "Walk My Walk" topped Billboard's country digital song sales chart in the United States with only 3,000 sales. Its AI artist, Breaking Rust, has over 4.5 million Spotify listeners. The song was promoted with an AI slop video on Instagram of a cowboy walking into the sunset.
That same month, an AI-generated song called "We Are Charlie Kirk", made as a tribute two months after Kirk's assassination, went viral on TikTok and reached number one on Spotify's viral songs chart. In the Netherlands, an AI-generated far-right anti-immigrant protest song, "Wij zeggen nee, nee, nee, tegen een AZC", peaked at number 5 on the Dutch Single Top 100.
The 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony showed that slop had reached the world's largest stage. An AI-generated scene of Sabrina Impacciatore skating and skiing across historic host cities drew criticism for replacing animators, and for a poor depiction of the Olympic rings that broke the Olympic brand guidelines. Ice dancers Kateřina Mrázková and Daniel Mrázek were criticized for dancing to an AI-generated song that combined AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" with an AI-composed track, "One Two", imitating Bon Jovi's melody.
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What is AI slop?
AI slop is digital material made with generative artificial intelligence that is perceived as lacking effort, quality or meaning, and produced in high volume to gain attention or earn money. Merriam-Webster and the American Dialect Society both chose "slop" as their 2025 Word of the Year.
Who popularized the term AI slop?
The British programmer Simon Willison is credited with championing the term in the mainstream after using it on his blog in May 2024. He has said it was in use long before then, and early uses appeared among 4chan, Hacker News and YouTube commentators after AI image generators were released in 2022.
What are the main properties of AI slop?
A January 2026 academic article by Cody Kommers and five other scholars identifies three prototypical properties of AI slop: superficial competence, asymmetric effort and mass producibility. The authors say slop has so far resisted formal definition.
Why do people create AI slop?
People create AI slop because it can earn revenue on platforms such as Facebook and TikTok, especially when aimed at United States audiences, which attract higher advertising rates. One medical student in India said he made thousands of dollars each month from low-effort AI images.
How has AI slop affected books and publishing?
AI slop has flooded online booksellers and library vendors with AI-written titles, including mushroom foraging books that experts warn are dangerous. Author Jane Friedman reported 29 AI-written novels using her name in one week, Kindle capped authors at three novels per day, and Clarkesworld temporarily closed submissions in February 2023.
How has AI slop affected music streaming?
AI slop has been used to manipulate streaming royalties and to fake bands. Michael Smith of North Carolina was charged with wire fraud conspiracy in September 2024 over more than 10 million US dollars in royalties, and Deezer estimated in June 2025 that as much as 70% of streams of AI-generated tracks were fraudulent.
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- 97Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymoreLewis White — 14 November 2025
- 98Angry Birds Block Quest: Rovio's latest title in the franchise has soft-launched for Android in the USParash Jyoti Kalita — 2024-11-01
- 101A Failure of Platform Policy: The AI Shovelware Problem 23/07/25Tommy Thompson — 23 July 2025
- 102NewsAI game clones are making indie developers afraid to show their workKyle Orland — 19 October 2026
- 104Shudder Just Quietly Released the Most Controversial Thriller of the YearJake Kleinman — 2024-04-19
- 105Late Night with the Devil: The Horror Film with Horrifying ImplicationsAnna Carson — 2024-11-20
- 106JournalAI in the Creative Industries: Strikes, Debates and ImplicationsArife Hüsmen — November 2024
- 108Not even Amazon is safe from the rise of AI 'slop'Daniel John — 2024-06-12
- 109The mystery of Amazon Freevee's A.I.-generated 12 Angry Men posterMary Kate Carr — 2024-06-06
- 111Amazon pulls AI recap from Fallout TV show after it made several mistakesLiv McMahon — 2025-12-12
- 112'Murderesses': MagentaTV entfernt Serie mit KI-Synchronisation4 February 2025
- 117MagazineAI-generated entry wins Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' video competitionWesley Stenzel — 2024-04-08
- 118Fan Fury Over AI-Generated Video Winning Pink Floyd's Animation CompetitionNagel Kelsey — 2024-04-09
- 119Fury as AI Video Wins Competition Held by Pink FloydMatt Growcoot — 2024-04-09
- 120Kanye West drops 'AI slop' music video featuring daughters North and ChicagoAlex West — 2024-11-28
- 123Magazine'Spokesperson' for AI 'Band' Velvet Sundown Now Says He Is an ImposterDavid Browne et al. — 2025-07-04
- 124'Not quite human': Popular band confirmed to have been AI, stunning fansDanielle Greyman-Kennard — 2025-07-08
- 125MagazineAI 'Band' the Velvet Sundown Officially Confirm They're AI — and a 'Provocation'Brian Hiatt — 5 July 2025
- 127Rolling Stone Gets Hoaxed about a HoaxDavid Farrier — 13 July 2025
- 128NewsSesso, stereotipi razziali e sessismo: chi sono i Cantoscena e perché la musica AI è prima in classificaVincenzo Nasto — 2025-08-08
- 129NewsLa canzone degli anni Sessanta che non è mai esistita: il fenomeno Vera Luna, cantante generata dall’IARedazione Web — 2025-08-12
- 130NewsChe cosa sono tutte queste canzoni a luci Rosse nella Top 50 viral di Spotify? Chi le scrive, canta e pubblica?Massimiliano Longo — 2025-08-13
- 131JournalThe year is a dropdown menu: Platformed provenance and the viral afterlives of AI-generated retro musicMatilde Catanese — August 28, 2026
- 132'AI slop': Emily Portman and musicians on the mystery of fraudsters releasing songs in their nameIan Youngs et al. — 22 August 2025
- 133The most downloaded country song in the US right now was made by AI13 November 2025
- 134NewsBillboard's Top Country Song Is Currently AI SlopVictor Tangermann — 12 November 2025
- 135NewsAI-Generated 'We Are Charlie Kirk' Tops Spotify Viral Songs ChartConor Murray
- 137AI-generated nonsense is leaking into scientific journalsMack DeGeurin — 2024-03-19
- 138Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed articleBeth Mole — 2024-02-15
- 139A ridiculous AI-generated rat penis made it into a peer-reviewed journalMack DeGeurin — 2024-02-16
- 140JournalRetraction Note: Bridging the gap: explainable ai for autism diagnosis and parental support with TabPFNMix and SHAPShimei Jiang — 2026-03-03
- 141Scholarslop: The Dangers of an Algorithmic Idea of the UniversityDavid Berry — 2025-10-06
- 142JournalFuture challenges for critical research on educational technologiesFelicitas Macgilchrist et al. — 2025-10-02
- 143JournalGenAI is an epistemic carcinogenGlen Berman — 2025-08-13
- 144Curl ending bug bounty program after flood of AI slop reportsLawrence Abrams
- 145NewsCurl shutters bug bounty program to stop AI slopSimon Sharwood
- 146JournalAI-Generated "Workslop" Is Destroying ProductivityKate Niederhoffer et al. — 22 September 2025
- 147Workslop
- 148NewsAI "workslop" sabotages productivity, study findsEmily Peck
- 149JournalResearchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got "Trendslop" in Return.Angelo Romasanta et al. — 16 March 2026
- 150NewsMicrosoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It “Slop”Joe Wilkins — January 4, 2026
- 151News“Microslop”: Infuriating Video Sums Up How Microsoft Is Ruining Windows With AIFrank Landymore — January 7, 2026
- 152News"Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsessionJez Corden — January 3, 2026
- 153Microsoft Effort to Ban 'Microslop' on Copilot Discord Didn't Go As PlannedJohn Martindale — 2026-03-02
- 154NewsThe term 'Microslop' has overrun the Microsoft Copilot Discord server, and attempts to moderate it have gone badlyAndy Edser — 2026-03-02
- 155NewsWinter Olympics Viewers Slam 'AI Slop' in Opening Ceremony Flashback SequenceTess Patton — February 6, 2026
- 157NewsWelcome to the First SloplympicsNitish Pahwa — 2026-02-13
- 158WWE's Dominik Mysterio Advertised As AEW Champion Thanks To AI ScrewupKebin Antony·2 min read — 2026-01-19