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'Slop' is the word of the year. What to do about AI taking over your feeds
'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
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The internet has spent the year arguing about whether AI is genius, theft, or destiny. Merriam-Webster’s editors cut through it with a simpler verdict: slop. The dictionary crowned “slop” its 2025 “word of the year,” joining in on the anti-AI backlash and recognizing that the internet’s new factory setting looks a lot like synthetic filler — low-quality AI content, made in bulk, and poured straight into feeds until the human parts get buried. If your For You page has started to resemble a trough of glossy, almost-real nonsense, congrats, you’re experiencing a cultural moment — with a dictionary entry.
The term has always sounded like something you’d scrape off a boot. Now, it’s also what you scrape off your social media. Merriam-Webster defines “slop” as “digital content of low quality that is produced........
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