Slopaganda

Slopaganda is a portmanteau of "AI slop" and "propaganda", referring to AI-generated content designed to manipulate beliefs, emotions, and political decision-ma…

Slopaganda
A Twitter post featuring an AI-generated image of Donald Trump hugging a duck and a cat, tweeted by the Republican Party's account for the United States House Committee on the Judiciary on September 9, 2024, accompanied by the text "Protect our ducks and kittens in Ohio!"
Twitter post by the U.S. Republican Party's account for the United States House Committee on the Judiciary on September 9, 2024, referencing the Springfield pet-eating hoax with an AI-generated picture of then-candidate President Trump hugging a cat and a duck with the caption reading "Protect our ducks and kittens in Ohio!"

Slopaganda is a portmanteau of "AI slop" and "propaganda", referring to AI-generated content designed to manipulate beliefs, emotions, and political decision-making at scale. The term is credited to Michał Klincewicz, an assistant professor in the Department of Computational Cognitive Science at Tilburg University, in 2025.[1]

Definition

Slopaganda is distinguished from traditional propaganda by three features: scale, scope, and speed.[2] Generative AI makes it possible to produce large volumes of content quickly and at low cost, allows for highly personalised and targeted messaging to specific sub-audiences, and leverages the hyper-connectivity of social networks to accelerate dissemination beyond what conventional media could achieve.[1][3]

Unlike traditional propaganda, which delivers a uniform message to all recipients, slopaganda can be micro-targeted — tailored to individuals based on estimated prior beliefs to reinforce political biases or emotional associations. The authors note that it need not aim at literal deception: much slopaganda is expressive rather than truth-apt, designed to create emotional associations rather than false factual beliefs.[1]

Relation to AI slop

AI-generated image depicting Donald Trump in the Star Wars universe, used as propaganda

Slopaganda is a subset of AI slop — low-quality, mass-produced AI-generated content — distinguished by intent. Where AI slop may be produced indifferently for commercial or engagement-farming purposes, slopaganda is deployed with a deliberate political or ideological goal.[4]

Notable examples

Examples discussed by the term's originators include Donald Trump's prolific use of AI in Truth Social posts and Iranian Lego-themed music videos.[5] AI-generated videos posted by the White House mixing real military footage with clips from films and video games; and deepfake audio imitating political candidates during the 2024 US presidential campaign have also been given the label slopaganda.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Klincewicz, Michał; Alfano, Mark; Fard, Amir Ebrahimi (2025). "Slopaganda: The interaction between propaganda and generative AI" (PDF). Filosofiska Notiser. 12: 135–162.
  2. ^ Bortos, Sergiu (2026). "Slopaganda: How AI-generated noise is reconfiguring the digital infosphere" (PDF). Saeculum. 61 (1): 19–32.
  3. ^ Markus, Tamara (19 June 2025). "Slopaganda: a new word for AI spin". University of Technology Sydney, Centre for Media Transition.
  4. ^ a b Alfano, Mark; Klincewicz, Michał (8 April 2026). "Slopaganda wars: how and why the US and Iran are flooding the zone with viral AI-generated noise". The Conversation.
  5. ^ "AI-generated Lego videos and Trump's poo-bombing: welcome to the Iran-US slopaganda wars". The Guardian. 2026-04-08. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2026-05-20.

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