What is AI slop?
I have heard and seen this term thousands of times now, and while I do understand what it means, I still tried researching into it a bit.
Wikipedia defines AI slop as:
AI slop (also known simply as slop) is digital content made with generative artificial intelligence that is lacking in effort, quality, or meaning, and produced in high volume as clickbait to gain advantage in the attention economy.
They also use terms like "synthetic media", "digital clutter", "AI garbage", "AI pollution", etc. to define AI slop, and it does make sense. The word "slop" was first used in the context of AI in 2022 on platforms like HackerNews.
Apart from this other sources like The Conversation, also define the term similarly:
...low- to mid-quality content – video, images, audio, text or a mix – created with AI tools, often with little regard for accuracy.
But there's a clear distinction here is that not all content created by AI is slop. It only applies to low-quality content created by AI with low-effort.
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