My hot take:

Slop is slop based on context.

It’s SEO spam. It’s thumbnails and autogenerated video for attention farming, it’s lazy Twitter posts parroting Sam Altman’s Ghibli meme, it’s disinformation. It’s faking and lying for internet points or actual money.

If you spend hours tweaking your original digital painting with some controlnet workflow so complex it puts photoshop layers to shame, and post it somewhere unmonetized just because, how is that slop?