[wy35]

It's definitely not the same.

Spam is trying to sell you something, e.g. an unsolicited email peddling a supplements.

Slop is low-quality content, e.g. someone taking a bunch of bird pictures off Google and posting it in a birding Facebook group.

Spam is an ad, slop is not. With AI, it is now much easier to generate slop.

[OptionOfT]

It is the same. Pages and pages of generated content so that 1) they end up higher in Google and 2) when you end up on their page they're able to show you ads / try to sell you stuff.

[ranger_danger]

People already use AI to generate ads though. It's only going to get worse.