Artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content increasingly saturates our information environment. Efforts to detect and remove it are failing. We propose that calling AI-generated content ‘slop’ is best understood as a social judgement: what a community recognizes as unwanted AI content. Studying AI slop this way makes it tractable, measurable and governable.
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Lloyd, T., Gosciak, J., Nguyen, T. & Naaman, M. AI rules? Characterizing Reddit community policies towards AI-generated content. In Proc. 2025 CHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (eds. Yamashita, N. et al.) Article No. 9 (ACM, 2025).
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