Merriam-Webster names ‘slop’ the word of the year
According to reports, ai’s impact on our social media feeds has not gone unnoticed by one of america’s top dictionaries This highlights that amidst the onslaught of content that has swept the web over the past twelve months, merriam-webster announced sunday that its word of the year for 2025 is “slop In recent developments, ” the dictionary defines the term as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence Interestingly, ” “like slime, sludge, and muck, slop has the wet sound of something you don’t want to touch Interestingly, slop oozes into everything,” the dictionary writes, adding that, in an age of ai anxiety, it is a term designed to communicate “a tone that’s less fearful, more mocking” of the technology This highlights that “it’s such an illustrative word,” merriam-webster’s president, greg barlow, told the associated press In recent developments, “it’s part of a transformative technology, ai, and it’s something that people have found fascinating, annoying, and a little bit ridiculous This highlights that ” the word “slop” has certainly been everywhere this year, as journalists and commentators have sought to describe the ways in which platforms like openai’s sora and google gemini’s veo are transforming the internet
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