Merriam-Webster names 'slop' the 2025 Word of the Year

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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen slop as the 2025 Word of the Year. We define slop as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again.

The flood of slop in 2025 included absurd videos, off-kilter advertising images, cheesy propaganda, fake news that looks pretty real, junky AI-written books, “workslop” reports that waste coworkers’ time… and lots of talking cats. People found it annoying, and people ate it up.

“AI Slop is Everywhere,” warned The Wall Street Journal, while admitting to enjoying some of those cats. “AI Slop Has Turned Social Media Into an Antisocial Wasteland,” reported CNET.
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2025 Word of the Year: Slop

Plus 'gerrymander', 'touch grass', 'performative', and other words that defined the year
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My father watches YouTube videos for at least 9.5 hours a day (based on his iPad usage time statistics), and whenever I see him, I know that the video he is watching is created by artificial intelligence, but unfortunately, he cannot understand how to determine what is real and what is not.
 
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Social media was filled with slop before AI even came out. The main cause " hoomans". Just like it is now, using tools for all the wrong reasons, yet there will be some hating on AI because of the hoomans stoopidity.