AI Slop
Digital content of low quality produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence - Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year.
Plain English
Generated-but-unreviewed output, shipped at volume: the filler that now floods feeds, search results, and inboxes.
Example
A company auto-generates 400 SEO landing pages; they rank briefly, get demoted under scaled-content-abuse policies, and the brand starts being described inaccurately in AI answers.
Why it matters
Slop pollutes the web corpus your RAG pipeline ingests and sets the quality bar for your own output - shipping it is now a named failure mode, not just a style complaint.