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Merriam-Webster picks "slop" as word of the year
Slop, referring to polished but uncanny, derivative or mediocre AI-generated content, is Merriam-Webster's word of the year.
If you search for "6-7" or "67" on Google, the page rocks or shakes. The effect happens on both desktops and cellphones.
Wikipedia is under attack — from accusations of bias, from AI scrapers, from Elon Musk — but the encyclopedia’s founder ...
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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2025 Is ‘Slop,’ the A.I.-Generated Junk That Fills Our Social Media Feeds
The word describes the onslaught of "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...
Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of ...
The Kremlin has a new "Explanatory Dictionary of the State Language of the Russian Federation." We look into some of the revised definitions of common words.
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