New Delhi, Sept. 27 -- 'Slopacalypse' is here.

Slop, the unsavoury term for the low-quality, error-filled content filling up online sources, is creeping close to epidemic proportions.

You can't have missed it-it's in images where you can see anatomical impossibilities like a cat with three tails. It's in text, in which figures are all wrong, and the language is robotic and full of known patterns. It's in art and music that have a false ring to them, in misleading videos on YouTube, social media, blogs, and forums.

It's polluting the internet. Before we know it, there may be only less trustworthy, low-quality content left. Clearly, we had better fight back-now.

The frightening thing is that some AI tools may be taking in the content th...