AI Slop

Yesterday Macquarie Dictionary announced that "AI slop" had been selected by its committee (and voted by the public) as the Word of the Year for 2025. What is AI slop?

Shrimp Jesus appeared on Facebook in 2024. Generation prompt was: “a person who looks like Jesus but who is made completely out of live shrimp, swimming underwater in the turquoise ocean, with a shrimp halo, and his hands dissolving into a shoal of shrimp”

After Hurricane Helene in 2024, an AI-generated image of a girl holding a puppy while sitting in a …