AI companies and users of AI are littering all aspects of public space with “AI slop”, but does this term reflect what it really is? We have terms like visual pollution, sound pollution, etc. In a way, "AI pollution " seems a proper term, but AI also pollutes meaning, like with AI generated text. Is AI pollution a new form of “microplastics”? Everywhere and in everything?
AI slop implies the problem is that the audience likes it, and to some that is the problem, but the real issue is how difficult it makes it to find the stuff you actually want to see. “AI spam” is the term I default to using.