TL;DR — What this post gives you A clear definition of AI slop and why it’s risky for creators. ( Wikipedia , The Guardian ) Practical 5-step framework to prevent, detect, and fix AI slop. ( The Verge , TechRadar ) Exact prompts, templates, and workflows you can use today to humanize AI drafts. ( the better web co. ) A monetization safety checklist tailored for platforms like YouTube (which updated its “inauthentic/repetitious content” policy in July 2025). ( Google Help ) What is “AI slop” — and why creators should care AI slop is the shorthand for low-quality, mass-produced, generic material created by AI — the kind of content that feels soulless, repetitive, or deceptive. It’s the bland, copy-paste style of writing, thumbnails, or videos that dilute originality and can mislead audiences. Major sites and publishers are calling it out and banning or downranking it; fact-checking communities (and platforms) are building rules to detect and remove such content. (...