Slopsquatting
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A form of cybersquatting where a non-existent software package that has been hallucinated by a large language model is registered by a malicious actor. Internet, uncountable
"Slopsquatting – when an LLM hallucinates a non-existent package name, and a bad actor registers it maliciously. The AI brother of typosquatting. Credit to @sethmlarson for the name"
Example
More examples"Slopsquatting – when an LLM hallucinates a non-existent package name, and a bad actor registers it maliciously. The AI brother of typosquatting. Credit to @sethmlarson for the name"
Etymology
From slop (“junk output from generative artificial intelligence”) + squatting. Coined by developer Seth Larson in 2025. Compare cybersquatting, typosquatting, and AI slop.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.