Their corresponding release made it clear that just because the term was chosen doesn’t mean it was being venerated. “We define slop as ‘digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence,’” they wrote. “All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again.”
The flood of slop in 2025, they concluded, was prolific and oddly mesmerizing. It included absurd videos, off-kilter advertising images, cheesy propaganda, fake news that looks pretty real, junky AI-written books, “workslop” reports that waste coworkers’ time — and lots of talking cats. (Always the cats.)
