First there was the broetry. Then came a pandemic-era of oversharing personal circumstances with colleagues past and present. This year, LinkedIn users face a flood of long posts filled with moral lessons, uplifting messages and tales of triumph over tragedy.

Welcome to social media in the age of artificial intelligence, where computer-generated content has become so ubiquitous that a new term has been coined to define low-quality media produced by AI. That term is slop.