# AI Slop

> Digital content of low quality produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence - Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year.

- Category: Evaluation & Safety
- Stage: Established
- Also called: Slop
- Canonical: https://www.joelcsaji.com/ai-dictionary/ai-slop

## 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.

## Related

- [Retrieval-Augmented Generation](https://www.joelcsaji.com/ai-dictionary/retrieval-augmented-generation)
- [Vibe Coding](https://www.joelcsaji.com/ai-dictionary/vibe-coding)
- [GEO](https://www.joelcsaji.com/ai-dictionary/geo)

## Sources

- [Merriam-Webster: 2025 Word of the Year](https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/word-of-the-year)