AI slop

AI slop is not simply anything made with AI. That would be like calling every meal involving a blender soup, which is plainly nonsense. Slop is what happens when machine-made content is produced at speed and nobody does the final human bit: checking it, shaping it, noticing it has invented a statistic, asking whether another person deserves to have it dropped into their day. It often looks finished, which is part of the problem. The headings are neat, the sentences wear clean shoes, and somewhere in paragraph four sits a claim nobody can source and a phrase generic enough to have been printed on the wall of an airport business lounge. Slop is the public puddle left by a chain of small abdications: botsitting got tiresome, checking got skipped, the machine participated and the human disappeared.