If you’ve been looking for the right word to describe shoddy, incorrect or otherwise dubious AI-generated material, the internet has spoken — it’s called "slop."
The New York Times reports the term has been gaining traction on online message boards and YouTube comments recently, and became all the more prevalent last month when Google introduced its AI Overview summaries at the top of search results. But will slop catch on with a mainstream audience, like "spam" before it?
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