Kipple

In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, kipple is the tide of junk that rises in every apartment, every abandoned building, every corner of the post-apocalyptic Earth. It reproduces itself, or seems to: leave a room empty and kipple fills it. The tendency of disorder to increase, of the useless to accumulate, of the dead weight of discarded objects to crowd out the living. Dick's characters fight a losing battle against kipple, which represents not merely physical clutter but the universe's fundamental tendency toward entropy — the second law of thermodynamics experienced as the daily struggle to maintain order against a force that does not rest. The term has become shorthand in technology culture for low-quality proliferation, and its relevance to the AI age is direct: when the cost of producing content approaches zero, the volume of content explodes, and most of that content is kipple — generated not because anyone needs it but because generation is trivially easy.