YouTube is cracking down on AI slop channels that have infested the platform, with CEO Neal Mohan doubling down on ...

AI slop refers to low-quality content generated at scale by AI. Learn what it is, why it’s spreading, and why it matters.

Peer review has met its match.

Artificial intelligence was supposed to accelerate discovery, but a growing number of researchers say it is flooding science with junk. Instead of careful experiments and hard-won insights, they ...

It’s hard to believe that just a few short years ago a video of Will Smith eating spaghetti generated by ModelScope, a text-to-video AI model, was the peak of AI slop. A number of artist projects are ...

In mid-December 2025, the editors of Merriam-Webster’s dictionary chose “slop” as their word of the year. Their definition: “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by ...

AI slop is undeniably rampant in today's online world, and the internet is seeing an abundance of low-quality, nonsensical AI-generated content that has led many to become increasingly frustrated with ...

Artificial intelligence is supposed to be the sharp edge of modern science, yet a growing chorus of researchers now argue that a large share of AI papers are little more than padded, low‑value output.