Slopsquatting

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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"

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"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.