Spam, junk … slop?

Tech experts hope new term for carelessly automated AI webpages and images can illuminate its damaging impact.

The ‘Shrimp Jesus’ is an example of the outlandish AI generated art now being shared on Facebook. Illustration:

Your email inbox is full of spam. Your letterbox is full of junk mail. Now, your web browser has its own affliction: slop.

“Slop” is what you get when you shove artificial intelligence-generated material up on the web for anyone to view.

Unlike a chatbot, the slop isn’t interactive, and is rarely intended to actually answer readers’ questions or serve their needs.

Instead, it functions mostly to create the appearance of human-made content, benefit from advertising revenue and steer search engine attention towards other sites.

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I think Slop is a good name for it. How about you?