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2025-12-15

'Slop' is Merriam-Webster's word of the year

Merriam-Webster has selected "slop" for the dictionary company's 2025 word of the year. The leading lexicographers define slop as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence." We've seen an absolute deluge of AI slop this year, from fake movie trailers on YouTube to AI-generated bands on Spotify

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2025-12-15

Merriam-Webster crowns “slop” word of the year as AI content floods Internet

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

Match Score: 72.68

qz

2025-12-15

'Slop' is the word of the year. What to do about AI taking over your feeds

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 [...]

Match Score: 69.68

cnet

2025-12-15

'Slop' Is Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year as AI Content Floods the Internet

"AI Slop": a succinct definition of the current state of the internet. [...]

Match Score: 65.74

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2025-12-15

We filled the internet with garbage, and now Slop is the word of the year — nice going, AI

Merriam-Webster has named "Slop" as its word of the year. Here's why this is all about AI. [...]

Match Score: 56.81

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2025-09-11

Perplexity's definition of copyright gets it sued by the dictionary

Merriam-Webster and its parent company Encyclopedia Britannica are the latest to take on AI in court. The plaintiffs have sued Perplexity, claiming that AI company's "answer engine" pro [...]

Match Score: 52.82

qz

2025-09-12

Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica are the latest to sue AI firm Perplexity

Dictionary and encyclopedia giants allege that the AI company is scraping their content without permission. [...]

Match Score: 52.21

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2025-12-08

Tech's biggest winners of 2025

Every December, the Engadget staff compiles a list of the year’s biggest winners. We scour over articles from the previous 12 months to determine the people, companies, products and trends that made [...]

Match Score: 41.63

venturebeat

2025-12-05

AI denial is becoming an enterprise risk: Why dismissing “slop” obscures real capability gains

Three years ago this week, Chat GPT was born. It amazed the world and ignited unprecedented investment and excitement in AI. Today, ChatGPT is still a toddler, but public sentiment around the AI boom [...]

Match Score: 39.25

thenextweb

2025-03-14

Tired of AI slop on Instagram? These alternative apps are for human artists only

Baby Elon Musk. Shrimp Jesus. The Titanic colliding with an iceberg lettuce. Social media is saturated with AI slop — low-quality, often ridiculous and sometimes disturbing images, videos, or words [...]

Match Score: 35.55