"AI Slop"

GenAI has triggered what has become known as “AI slop” – images and text created using generative AI tools. Coined in the 2020s, the term has a derogatory connotation akin to "spam", "junk" or digital clutter" that signify unwanted, poor quality AI content in social media or in online search results. However, Meta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, said that new, AI-generated feeds were likely to come to Facebook and other Meta platforms: 'I think we’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI-generated or AI-summarised content or kind of existing content pulled together by AI in some way.'  Although AI-generated feeds on social media carries risks and ethical concerns, "spammy content" viewed critically may inspire ideation. Indeed ideation springs from many sources and the more we learn, experience, and try, the better we get at generating creative and meaningful ideas.