> The word slop was recognized for its widespread use for low-quality, high-quantity content, most typically produced by generative AI. While AI slop was a nominee in the American Dialect Society’s 2024 Word of the Year vote, in 2025 slop could stand on its own,
I'm not sure if it matters, but the term AI Slop started on 4chan, probably on /g/, derived from the ubiquitous 4chan "goyslop" meme (used to describe ultraprocessed food). Seeing "normies" casually throwing it around, completely unaware of its etymology is... interesting. Likewise interesting is how this article retconned its etymology, to omit any mention of its true inspiration. (Maybe because the term has gone mainstream?)
fluoridation3 hours ago
[-] I'm pretty sure "slop" in the sense used in "AI slop" is a word in common usage for any kind of cheap, low-quality, unpalatable edible paste, like gruel or anything of that nature, especially when it has a homogeneous consistency. It can also appear in verb form such as "slop it onto a plate", that is to scoop up the slop with a ladle or some other utensil and messily splat in onto a dining plate. It very much is not Internet slang, and I'd say it's quite an appropriate term for what it describes in its new meaning.
reply▲"AI slop" is an internet meme that bears a strking resemblance to another, older meme, "goyslop"; why is it such a stretch to believe the former derived from the latter? "AI slop" was being used on 4chan as far back as
November, 2022 on /g/:
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/89758234/#q89758967
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/89911387/#q89931883
It also saw its first use that month on /pol/, though I won't link to the archived threads (for obvious reasons). Unless you can provide earlier prior art, the most likely etymology of the term is 4chan, November, 2022, derived from "goyslop."
Because we’ve fed slop to pigs since the 1600s? It’s a commonly known word with a clearly understood meaning. It didn’t come from or is a shortening of goyslop, you’re just flat out wrong.
reply▲Right.. but it’s WOTY in 2025 not 1600. The reason this word and many others (including doomer, neckbeard, zoomer, etc) are popular can easily be traced back to 4chan.
There’s a book called“Algospeak” by Adam Alekaik specifically talks about how internet slang terms often originate from radicalized communities like 4chan and slowly filter into the mainstream while losing their original political meaning. Goyslop-> AI slop is a textbook example of this.
fluoridation1 hour ago
[-] Where's the evidence that "AI slop" actually originates from "goyslop", though? Just because one predates the other and both contain the same root word? It's equally if not more likely that both terms were derived independently. Like I said, "slop" is a word in common usage that precisely matches the usage of both terms: something bland, low-quality, and high-quantity.
reply▲The way “slop” is used here is very specific. It implies a power dynamic between the slop producer and consumer where the consumer is viewed as cattle, and the producer feeds the cheapest possible product.
GP cities specific examples of this usage on 4chan in 2022 which is proof until someone can find a counter example.
recursivecaveat3 minutes ago
[-] Yeah, there is a power dynamic where the consumer is viewed as cattle, because the origin of the word is literal cattle lol.
> When Mr. Zuckerman reached the pigpen, he
climbed over the fence and poured the slops into the
trough.
Are you now willing to accept my 'proof' that 4chan actually derived specifically from Charlotte's Web?
fluoridation8 minutes ago
[-] I'm not sure that connotation is all that present in the way it's commonly used, but I'll grant it. However, like the other person you responded to has said, "slop" already had that meaning, because it is the low-grade cattle feed. So If both "AI slop" and "goyslop" carry these shades of meaning, it would not suggest one descends from the other, but that both descend directly from "slop".
reply▲SV_BubbleTime2 hours ago
[-] This while thread is wild.
Slop has always been a bulk shitty thing.
Nah... I've heard the term slop used all my lifetime. Very common word, as is "sloppy". In fact, I'd connect it with sloppy in the sense of poor workmanship.
reply▲fluoridation2 hours ago
[-] Okay. If "slop" is a shortened form of "goyslop", then what's the etymology of "goyslop"? Is it just a wholly novel sequence of unrelated letters?
reply▲Goy is the Hebrew for a Gentile (or a nation). However, while goyslop is an earlier coinage I certainly do not link it to AI-slop, but more to "sloppy".
reply▲fluoridation1 hour ago
[-] "Goyslop" and "sloppy" are both derived from "slop". "Goyslop" meaning "slop of the goy variety" (equivalently to "AI slop"), and "sloppy" meaning "having the qualities of slop".
reply▲I was already aware of the term "goyslop" but I see it as a parallel development rather than the origin. I heard daytime TV programming being referred to as slop over twenty years ago. I don't think there are any antisemitic undertones for the word outwith the "goyslop" coinage.
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