"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year.

All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again,” the company said. “People found it annoying, and people ate it ...

Merriam-Webster is the latest in a string of dictionaries to choose words of the year based on our relationship with ...

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 ...

The word describes the onslaught of "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...

This linguistic shift reflects growing concerns about artificial intelligence’s impact on digital content quality and ...

Merriam-Webster has named the word “slop” as its 2025 World of the Year, reflecting the crises of modern age characterized by deepfakes, post-truth, and bogus online content generated ...

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Merriam-Webster has selected "slop" for the dictionary company's 2025 word of the year. The leading lexicographers define ...

Merriam-Webster chose "slop" as its word of the year for 2025, and that is correct because AI trash is everywhere. The post ...

The word "slop" was first used to refer to soft mud in the 1700s, but has since evolved to mean of little value — especially when referring to online content of low quality that's made with artificial ...