Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is ‘slop’
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Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year is 'slop,' defined as low-quality AI-generated digital content. Major sites like YouTube and Wikipedia are combating it, while others like Meta and OpenAI are embracing AI slop.
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Merriam-Webster has settled on a word that represents 2025 - and that word is "slop." The dictionary-maker defines "slop" as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence," something that many people have become familiar with as AI-generated content permeates the internet.
This year, some of the most popular sites on the web took steps to stave off the infestation of AI slop, including YouTube, Wikipedia, Spotify, and Pinterest. But others are embracing it, as both Meta and OpenAI made apps dedicated to streams of AI-generated videos that you can scroll through and share. Even Disne …