In a year dominated by the booming AI industry and an overwhelming flood of digital creations, Merriam-Webster has crowned "slop" as its 2025 Word of the Year. This four-letter word acts as a judgment ...

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year is "slop," spotlighting AI-generated content that’s fluent, scalable—and increasingly ...

"Slop" was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value.

To select its Word of the Year, Merriam-Webster’s editors review data on which words rose in search volume and usage, then ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...