slopsquatting

Etymology

From slop (“junk output from generative artificial intelligence”) + squatting. Coined by developer Seth Larson in 2025. Compare cybersquatting, typosquatting, and AI slop.

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.“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”