"You hear the term 'slop' a lot now. There’s a good reason for that: A lot of janky internet content is being churned out with A.I., and slop..."

"... is a handy name for this. But there’s another phenomenon—not unconnected, but a little different—that I also think it’s worth getting a handle on. I’ve been thinking about it as 'slurry.' In the non-metaphorical world, slurry means an unresolved mix of liquid and solid; in agriculture, a thin mixture of manure and water. The word comes to mind with this very pervasive kind of content that’s gunking up my feed, where different content types are running together into one, half-resolved substance. Where everything assumes the qualities of everything else. It’s painters having to perform incongruously as influencers to get some attention for their work. It’s audio interviews, auto-transcribed and posted without any editing so that you get not only weird errors but also all the 'you knows' and 'uhms.' It’s long video essays chopped up into little incoherent bits and posted with gibbering subtitles. What these have in common is a feeling of clunkiness that comes when something originated in one medium and hasn’t quite been thought through for another...."

Writes Ben Davis, in "The Great Enslurrification of Culture/Rosalind Krauss's 'post-medium condition' comes for writing, and everything" (ArtNet).