slopsquatting
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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"
- "One such risk is slopsquatting, a new term for a surprisingly effective type of software supply chain attack that emerges when LLMs “hallucinate” package names that don’t actually exist. If you’ve ever seen an AI recommend a package and thought, “Wait, is that real?”—you’ve already encountered the foundation of the problem."
- "The best way to mitigate slopsquatting is for developers to proactively monitor every dependency and use tools to vet dependencies before adding them to projects, the vendor concluded."
- "AI already famously hallucinates, so weaponizing those visions is nothing other than a logical next step. "Slopsquatting," where attackers create malicious software packages using names AI models have already hallucinated into existence, is already a thing."
Etymology
From slop (“junk output from generative artificial intelligence”) + squatting. Coined by developer Seth Larson in 2025. Compare cybersquatting, typosquatting, and AI slop.
Usage
Frequently Paired Words
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slopsquatted
slopsquatter