Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is 'slop'

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Merriam-Webster crowned “slop” word of the year — just as AI junk overwhelms feeds, and platforms offer ways for users to turn the noise down

Merriam-Webster declares 'slop' its word of the year in nod to growth of AI

Slop refers to the low-quality content created by artificial intelligence that's showing up across social media.

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year delivers a dismissive verdict on junk AI content

Dictionary codifies the term that took hold in 2024 for low-quality AI-generated content.

Merriam-Webster names "slop" the word of the year for 2025

Sometimes, the Merriam-Webster word of the year is predictable. And 2025 was one of those years.Extremely unsurprisingly, the famous and venerable publisher of dictionaries and other reference materials declared "slop" its word of the year for 2025. According to Merriam-Webster, slop is defined as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence," which feels pretty apt if you've been using…

Springfield’s Merriam-Webster looks to AI ‘slop’ as word of the year

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‘Flood of slop’: Merriam-Webster’s 2025 Word of the Year takes a dig at AI

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year tends to say a lot about the past 12 months — and how ready we as a society are to give up, toss our calendars and hope the next 12 are better.