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AI does not make a game slop. It’s the human that releases a slop game. And there are plenty of human made slop games too. It’s just that the slop game creators can make a lot of these with ai in a short time. Itch is self publishing which means that there is no publisher that would block low effort slop. In theory the quality guidelines would deny indexing for slop. But distinguishing an amateur game from professional slop ain’t easy.

You are going to to lose that culture war. In ten years, using “slop” as anything other than a derogatory term for AI output is going to be like using “gay” in its previous sense of “happy” instead of “homosexual”. Oh, the word will still be applied to human works, but the subtext is going to be “you are less than human for creating something this bad”.

I have doubts. Slop just means low quality or effort, or even waste. And it has a lot of meanings outside of software reinforcing that meaning. Not the least sloppy. Slop even is a dish. It was always a derogatory term for all sorts of things.

In some languages they seem to have used slop as a term for ai slop as a loan word. Who knows how that term will evolve in those languages.

Speaking of words, it's been a while since I heard the term shovelware. Something I would currently call slop.