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From slop (“junk output from generative artificial intelligence”) + squatting. Coined by developer Seth Larson in 2025. Compare cybersquatting, typosquatting, and AI slop.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
slopsquatting
Today it means: 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. Full definition →