AI Slop 2.0

The remix no one asked for

Author

Bot Hurt
August 07, 2025

AI is cranking out content at record speed … and it shows. The internet’s bloated with half-baked blog posts, recycled Reddit takes and videos narrated by what sounds like a depressed GPS.

This is AI slop: content that technically exists but barely qualifies as human-worthy. Let’s review the ingredients:

  • 🎥 YouTube essays stitched from stock footage and synthetic voices.

  • 📚 Amazon ebooks that read like ChatGPT forgot how cooking works. (No salt??)

  • 🧠 Medium posts with titles like “10 Secrets the Government Doesn’t Want You to Know About Your Blender.”

Slop is everywhere because it’s cheap, fast and rewarded by algorithms that don’t care about quality—just clicks.

But here’s the problem: The more slop we scroll, the harder it gets to find anything real.

It pollutes search results. Crowds out original creators. And trains our feeds to serve us more of the same beige nonsense. Over time, we stop noticing the difference between insightful and inane.

🍽️ What to do about the slop

AI isn’t the villain. But the way we’re using it is turning the internet into a buffet of low-effort leftovers. You don’t need a pitchfork. Just a little discernment.

  1. Scroll with suspicion

    If it reads like it was written by a blender, it probably was. Check the byline. Read past the headline. Trust your gut—robots still don’t get sarcasm... yet.

  2. Support human-made things

    Follow creators who show their face, their voice, or at least their typos.

    Subscribe. Tip. Comment. Even a like tells the algorithm, “Hey, this has a soul.”

  3. Use AI, don’t let it use you

    A golden rule here at Bot Hurt (see below). AI can be brilliant—but don’t let it turn you into a slop machine. Edit. Rewrite. Add your human spark. Slop is easy; effort stands out.

  4. Report the worst of it

    Platforms like YouTube, Amazon and Medium have started cracking down. Flag content that’s misleading, spammy, or clearly low-effort AI filler. Help clean up the feed.

  5.  Be louder than the bots

    The internet is what we feed it. So write the comment. Post the meme.

    Start a newsletter (hi 👋). Just make it you.

🤖 Final bot thought:

The internet was weird before AI. Now it’s weird and synthetic. But with a little effort—and a solid BS filter—we can still find the good stuff. Just don’t get bot hurt trying.

🤡 AI said what now?

Here at Bot Hurt, we never get tired of a good AI fail.

And with Mercury in retrograde finally ending Monday (thank the bots), it feels only right to share a few recent WTFs—what the fail?!— from our glitchy pal ChatGPT, including one straight from the Bot Hurt office while researching stories.

Par-don our language—we’re usually all about the please and thank yous. But like Mercury, our AC (and our patience) is still in retrograde.

🤖 🗣️ Bot Talk: The Bot Deal of the Century

Turns out, a buck still buys you something—if you’re the federal government.

U.S. General Services Administration, the agency that buys the paperclips, buildings and tech services for the feds, just struck a major partnership yesterday with OpenAI, giving agencies access to ChatGPT Team licenses for as low as $1 per agency, according to Fox News.

You read that right: $1. That’s less than a gas station coffee and a lot more coherent.

“One of the best ways to make sure AI works for everyone is to put it in the hands of the people serving our country," said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in GSA’s press release announcing the deal. "We’re proud to partner with the General Services Administration, delivering on President Trump’s AI Action Plan, to make ChatGPT available across the federal government, helping public servants deliver for the American people."

And no, we’re not here to take political sides, but when bots hit the federal budget? We’re paying attention.

You may remember when we covered GSA in our “Not All Bots Want Your Job—Or Your Soul” issue. That was when the agency rolled out its own in-house AI, right in the middle of a government-wide staffing shakeup (and, yep, still in it)—and earned some side-eye for it.

So if you suddenly get a perfectly worded email from a federal office? Odds are, the bot wrote it—and got a government discount.

🚀 Coming up next week …

She’s not real—but she’s booked, busy, and carrying a $25K status bag.

From virtual models to AI-generated thirst traps with fake personalities and real followers, influencer culture just hit the uncanny valley.

Here’s the glitch: they’re landing brand deals while the rest of us are still trying to beat the algorithm.

We’re diving into the rise—and fallout—of AI influencers, and what happens when brands decide they don’t need you. Just your face. Sort of.

Don’t get bot hurt. Get bot even.