It's been used in this meaning on 4chan for at least half a year, maybe more.
I was actually pondering the new delineation yesterday; the line between spam, propaganda, trolling, and censorship was never too fine as it is now.
I like the term slop. I needed the word yesterday.
LLM slop or AI slop totally works but slop just by itself is so generic, I doubt slop by itself will catch on but who knows.
Stop trying to make slop happen, it's not gonna happen.
Slop is an old term for allowed overlap between objects.
Slop is a word for waste water and messy animal food. Don't quite understand the debates here in the comments.
I like how it sounds similar to spam.
A good coin, this one. It needed a simple name, and it falls perfectly into a list of "four letter words."
slop is also unwanted food waste watered down and fed to swine.
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Eh, the internet is full of garbage SEO-spam already. We have a word for that, which is enshittification, which imo correctly identifies the root perpetrators of the problem: platform owners utilizing monopolies.
I don't see why we need a word for AI-generated garbage specifically, not yet at least.
Like if I go onto google maps and search "Best restaurants in my area" it's going to 100% recommend fast-food chains that have purchased product placement. I don't feel AI plays a significant role in bad recommendations at this point, and to blaming/stopping AI wouldn't really help.
I imagine the use of this term comes from the name for the leftover foodstuff that gets fed to pigs, usually from a bucket.
As a small scale pig farmer, I approve of the use of this term; I care enough about the welfare of my pigs that I would never risk feeding them anything that would be considered slop. Plus, pigs fed with slop usually end up tasting bad, because they are what they eat.
A wonderfully apt metaphor that reflects both the voracious appetites of modern AI systems and the resulting quality of the results.