The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

In a year-end writeup on the state of AI, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made it clear he'd really like us to stop saying "slop.

This linguistic shift reflects growing concerns about artificial intelligence’s impact on digital content quality and demonstrates how technology trends shape modern language evolution.

Merriam-Webster names “slop” its 2025 Word of the Year, spotlighting the rise of low-quality AI-generated content flooding ...

Discover the Word of the Year 2025 selections from leading dictionary websites like Merriam-Webster, Oxford, and ...

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

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called "slop." The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it the ...

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

“Slop,” a term used to describe low-quality digital content, has been named word of the year by the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The dictionary defines slop as “digital content of low quality that is ...

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For the first time in more than 20 years, Merriam-Webster is out with a new edition of its "Collegiate Dictionary." The 12th Edition includes some 5,000 new words and weighs almost five pounds.