"slop" is not a new term, it has been used for years to describe low quality content that is produced consistently and according to trends and it's not strictly related to AI. My guess is that some people who are not familiar to internet slang, saw the word "slop" being used when talking about AI and thought it's a new word used for AI generated content.
There was a blog post I read on HN that was about how existing large publications who were threatened by the internet (think big magazines) began to churn out low-quality content that will allow their sites to dominate search rankings despite offering less value than higher-quality posts from small blogs.
I think the blog post was from some kind of home air filter review site or something, but I can't find it....
Prior to meaning unwanted marketing content, it was the name of a canned meat. At least in the Anglosphere there wasn't any other widespread common meaning for it.
That's exactly what it meant. Its use to describe UCE derived from a Monty Python sketch where a restaurant customer was trying to order food without it, but it was included in every menu item.
Technically, all proper names may be words, so yes you were/are correct in that sense. It's sort of unconventional, like saying that "Elon" is a word. The way you phrased it ("word" vs "name"), I interpreted as having a non-brand-name meaning.
... but I think the usage is new. Either way my thinking is that it is beneficial for a specific word for the concept of "unwantes AI generated content" to exist, as a thing, so we can discourse about it ...)
