sloppification

English

Etymology

From sloppy +‎ -ification.

Noun

sloppification (uncountable)

  1. (informal, usually sarcastic) The process of making or becoming increasingly sloppy, low quality, or informal.
    • 1968, Philip L. Gerber, Lessons in Language‎[1], page 276:
      All we should expect an alphabet to provide is a skeleton spelling of all the "quotable," basic sounds, to be interpreted by the speaker into his own particular sloppification.
    • 1988 May, Douglas Vipond, “Review: Frames Of Meaning”, in Inkshed‎[2], volume 7, number 3, page 4:
      However, scientific reports are not normally subjected to the kind of "sloppification" that Collins practices here.
    • 2014 January 10, David Milstead, quoting Faye Landes, “Pricey Nike can't keep beating the market”, in The Globe and Mail‎[3]:
      Whether it's the ongoing sloppification of America, the introduction of ever more comfortable fabrics, peer pressure to look like you care about working out, or simply a fashion shift, dress codes have shifted very rapidly.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:sloppification.
  2. Increasing use of AI slop.
    • 2025 July 25, Parmy Olson, “YouTube's AI Slop Is a Win for Alphabet. But What About Us?”, in Bloomberg‎[4]:
      ‘Sloppification’ looks set to help the video-sharing site become the world’s largest media company.
    • 2025 October 16, Patrick Foulis, “Sloponomics: who wins and loses in the AI-content flood?”, in The Economist‎[5]:
      Licensing copyrighted work for sloppification could delight superfans and introduce material to new audiences.
    • 2026 January 16, “The American Dialect Society's 2025 Word of the Year is...”, in That's What They Say (podcast), spoken by Anne Curzan and Rebecca Hector:
      Anne: The word of the year for 2025 is "slop". / Rebecca: "Slop"! I have some theories, but please explain. Anne: As in "AI slop", which actually was a nominee for the word of the year for 2024, back in 2025 because the slop is everywhere. It also sometimes combines, so you get things like "sloppification", and there's a lot of sloppification happening with AI.

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