AI slop
Low-quality content churned out by AI in bulk, fast enough that nobody can review it all.
AI slop is the name people settled on for mass-produced machine-generated content that is not quite wrong enough to spot instantly and not good enough to be worth anyone’s time. Articles that say nothing, product reviews for things nobody used, security reports describing bugs that do not exist. The defining feature is not that it is fake, it is that it is cheap. Producing it costs seconds, and checking it still costs a human several minutes.
That asymmetry is what makes slop a real problem rather than an aesthetic complaint. Any system built on people reading submissions, whether that is a bug bounty inbox, a hiring pipeline or a comment section, was quietly assuming that writing was expensive. When it stopped being expensive, the queue filled up and the good submissions got harder to find.