In 2025, the term "slop" became the Merriam-Webster word of the year. By 2026, the definition in the dictionary included the use of AI to create low-quality digital content. Harvard Business Review, ...

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OpenAI’s celebrated AI video creation tool has been terminated. I think the reason is that everybody is fed up with AI slop. OpenAI just killed Sora. That’s an amazing development. When the company ...

Even as a technology leader who works in this space, I must acknowledge that consumers’ ill will toward AI is largely deserved. The average American’s experience with GenAI has, to date, been defined ...

The most basic issue with this approach is that people are not good at spotting AI-generated content, and the gap between human detection and AI capability is widening fast. Early AI content had ...

In the middle of a Monday workday, I found myself writing fan fiction for a stranger on the internet who wanted to read a scenario of themselves with a pit of quicksand. I was logged on to “Your AI ...

Google is no stranger to AI slop. Over the past couple of years, it’s dabbled in slopifying our favorite mediums and platforms, including YouTube content, films, and certain aspects of gaming. With ...

If your social media feed feels noisier, stranger or more manipulated than it used to, you're not alone. The internet runs on its own language now, and those buzzwords quietly shape what you see, what ...

new video loaded: When the Internet Cooks, It Serves Slop transcript Repulsive and denigrating. At least that’s what John McWhorter, an Opinion writer and a linguistics professor at Columbia, pictures ...

I noticed the videos on social media at some point during the macabre nightmare of ICE invasions in American cities that has been a feature of the second Trump administration. One showed a deli owner ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine the damage that AI slop is ...