If your feed is inundated with AI slop these days, you're not alone. "Slop" is a squishy, subjective term — it depends entirely on what you think looks cheap, lazy, or low-effort. Still, the vibe people are describing tends to be the same: mass-produced content, shoddily plopped into the feed, neither discerning nor pleasurable. Why should AI output be any different than grayish cafeteria slop?

Generative AI has been feeding social media since its inception, but the shift has recently become more pronounced. We've covered this great slopification at Mashable. Heck, there's a laundry list of just animal-based AI slop we've covered: fake animals "caught" on surveillance tapes, emotional support kangaroos, musicians with critter companions, or heavy machinery "cleaning" barnacles off whales.

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