AI Slop: low-quality, AI-generated content that floods the internet, often with the primary goal of generating ad revenue or manipulating search engine rankings. It’s often characterized by a lack of originality, accuracy, or purpose, resembling spam in its tendency to overwhelm and clutter online spaces.

How It Started

Back in 2023 when AI was new it felt magical. It was a completely novel concept and everyone was figuring out what it could do.

How It’s Going

Now in 2025, we expect AI to be able to do anything and everything - yet it’s abilities are lagging far behind our expectations.

Hustlers are using it to generate mass content. Enterprises expect it to drastically increase their employee’s productivity and are out-of-touch with the reality that AI can’t yet produce quality content.

The Fallout

Now everywhere I look is AI slop: Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, random websites… I’ll often land on an article from Google and then scramble to get the heck outta there when I quickly realize it’s inaccurate, AI-generated garbage.

I see countless posts along the lines of “I used AI to generate 5000 blog posts”. No - please stop.

The Response

Now it’s gotten so bad that the term AI slop is becoming mainstream. It’s not uncommon to see people roasting content with telltale signs of AI: lots of emojis, em dashes (–), words like seamlessly, etc.

Yet many people still consume AI-generated content. And search engines and algorithms reward quantity over quality.

My Experience

I tried using AI to polish some of my first articles - it didn’t go well. It ripped out my personality, removed stuff that I had intentionally added, and added new stuff that was inaccurate. From that point on I decided to not use AI at all for writing my articles - and the results have been much better. At most I’ll use it to proofread and suggest changes, but I try to avoid copypasting anything it spits out.

The Future

I certainly hope that there’s an end to this madness. People will become more picky about the content they consume. Blatant AI-generated content on social media will be called out and downvoted into oblivion. AI will continue to improve and become less horrible.

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