Mentions of AI slop across X, Reddit, Pinterest, Twitch, forums, reviews, podcasts, blogs, comments, and news from January 1 to December 31, 2024 compared those from January 1 to October 31, 2025.
Tools: Meltwater social listening and analytics
Posted by meltwater_global
![[OC] Usage of the term “AI slop” in 2024 vs 2025](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/udg0q4qbv66g1-1536x950.png "[OC] Usage of the term “AI slop” in 2024 vs 2025")
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The graph as it’s shown gives the impression that 2025 came earlier, kind of like an r/afterbefore
I think this should just be a single time series line
Doing the separate lines for each year is useful for doing year-over-year comparisons, which isn’t really the need here. Year over year comparisons are most useful when you expect the to be yearly periodicity in the data and you want to compare growth. And here, not only would we not expect there to be a yearly cycle but there isn’t enough data to demonstrate that such a cycle exists
The word “slop” is getting on my nerves too. People are throwing it around outside of the context of AI also. Like AAA games are slop, etc.
It is being wildly overused.
What you call ‘AI slop’ is called ‘engagement-driving content’ by the people who need filler to space out their ads.
I am so sick of the word “slop”
Why are we seeing a spike in August in both of these years? Has that become to AI what November is to game consoles (when the big new thing launches)
how come december 24 is higher than jan 25 ?
That’s because the AI slop is getting sloppier
What’s funny is that, over this period of time, AI has gotten exponentially better. The ‘slop’ that people are seeing is often just art or writing they don’t like, not actually bad or wrong. Most of the really sloppy stuff was in the earliest iterations.
If I had to guess, I would say that lots of folks are threatened by a machine that can do what just a couple years ago was the exclusive domain of humanity. They’re also mad that this astonishing new technology didn’t arrive flawless.
It reminds of the story of John Henry, whose pride led him to a steel-driving contest between him and a new steel-driving machine. He won, but the legend usually overlooks the fact that the machine was the first and weakest of its kind and that John died from exhaustion afterward.
edit: The downvotes only reinforce my point.
Splitting the two years and making it “by month” doesn’t really make sense here, unless your assumption is that there’s a seasonal trend.
I’m sick of people over generalizing every piece of Machine Learning tech as “AI slop” and not doing the bare minimum to learn the difference between GenAI, LLMs and traditional Deep Learning and Machine Learning.
This week I saw someone calling a fucking object detection model (YOLO) AI slop.
The word slop is ironically becoming slop
As a large language model, I cannot comment on the generation of my slop.
There is no reason for this to be a stacked line graph instead of linear. If you’re going to post on data is beautiful it actually has to be beautiful and not just data
Some mods on another sub recently called my carefully written post AI Slop! Reader, I was not best thrilled. (For any Americans reading, that means I was incandescent).
Personally I would classify this chart and your company as ai slop. Low quality karma grab attempt to use reddits anti-ai sentiment to advertise yourself despite there being no way to be an analytics company in 2025 without heavily utilizing ai.
Gonna be the word of the year at this rate.
A while ago I asked why “slop” was the one singular word used to describe AI and I was sent to the shadow realm by down votes.
Yeah man, the term was invented last year
This is the opposite of dataisbeautiful. You’ve made a straight forward time series graph more complicated to understand
I find it pretty insane how Pyrocynical has basically single-handedly created and popularized this “-slop” thing and it’s now a common phrase used all over the internet
I sure wish I had a filter that caught this phrase and immediately muted/downvoted/hid whatever was saying it. It’s almost universally a red flag for some uninformed, ignorant clickbait nonsense.
How many of those posts are AI created?