{"id":92264,"date":"2025-12-16T15:27:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=92264"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:30:16","slug":"merriam-webster-declares-slop-as-2025-word-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/merriam-webster-declares-slop-as-2025-word-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Merriam-Webster Declares ‘Slop’ as 2025 Word of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Merriam-Webster, a leading American dictionary, has declared<\/a> ‘slop’ as the word of the year. It refers to “low-quality digital content, typically generated on a large scale by artificial intelligence.”<\/p>\n

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“Like slime or mud, slop has the moist sound of something you don’t want to touch. Slop seeps into everything,” the company wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

According to the company, in the age of artificial intelligence, this term is meant to convey “a tone that is less about fear and more about mockery” towards the technology.<\/p>\n

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“It’s such a vivid word. It is part of the transformative technology \u2014 AI \u2014 and what people find fascinating, annoying, and a bit amusing,” commented Merriam-Webster President Greg Barlow.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In 2025, slop was ubiquitous as journalists and experts attempted to describe how platforms like OpenAI’s Sora and Google’s Gemini Veo are transforming the internet.<\/p>\n

Thanks to a new generation of media content generators, there are books, podcasts, songs, TV commercials, and films created with the help of artificial intelligence. According to one study<\/a>, nearly 75% of new web materials are related to AI in some form.<\/p>\n

The emergence of these tools has even led to the so-called “slop economy,” where the surplus of such content can be used to generate advertising revenue.<\/p>\n

Critics fear<\/a> the rise of a polarized digital society, where some can afford higher-quality paid material, while others cannot. The latter will receive a “digital diet of slop, poor in informational value.”<\/p>\n

Merriam-Webster is a publisher and dictionary of the English language in the United States. It is considered one of the most authoritative sources for meanings, pronunciations, word histories, and proper usage.<\/p>\n

It is not the only one to assign the title to an AI-related term. For Macquarie Dictionary, it was AI slop, Oxford Dictionary chose ragebait<\/span>, and Collins Dictionary settled on vibe coding<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Back in 2019, the Chinese magazine “Yao Wen Jiao Zi” published a traditional list of the most popular words and phrases. Among others, it included the term “blockchain.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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