"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year.
Merriam-Webster is the latest in a string of dictionaries to choose words of the year based on our relationship with technology and artificial intelligence.
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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2025 Is ‘Slop,’ the A.I.-Generated Junk That Fills Our Social Media Feeds
The word describes the onslaught of "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...
Merriam-Webster has selected "slop" for the dictionary company's 2025 word of the year. The leading lexicographers define ...
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