What Is AI Slop? Everything to Know About the Terrible Content Taking Over the Internet

If you’ve scrolled through social media lately and thought, “this feels off,” you’re not imagining things. The internet is filling up with something called AI slop — a wave of machine-made junk content that’s cheap, endless and hard to escape.

The term started as online slang a few years ago but quickly became shorthand for the growing flood of low-effort AI-generated material. Think of it as spam for the social media age. Bad email scams have been replaced by bland blog posts, fake news clips and…