slopper
nounEtymology From slop + -er.
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Internet, Derogatory Someone who is overreliant on generative AI tools such as ChatGPT; a producer of AI slop.
- The simplest, most straightforward option is to be a “slopper”: someone who generates content at scale using AI and manipulates or leverages a platform to make money from it. Sloppers may try to sell their content directly to people on a major marketplace — by, say, automating the production of recipe books to sell to unsuspecting (and maybe undiscriminating) customers on Amazon.2024 September 23, Max Read, “Drowning in Slop: AI is clogging our feeds—and our brains—with garbage”, in New York:
- Generative AI is incredibly tempting to use all the time for everything, but nobody wants to turn into a slopper (a person who uses AI all the time for everything).2025 December 25, Megan Morrone, “How not to use AI”, in Axios, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2025:
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