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Episode: Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is ‘slop’
Description: 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 on Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year.
"It's such an illustrative word," said Greg Barlow, Merriam-Webster's president, in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press ahead of the announcement. "It's part of a transformative technology, AI, and it's something that people have found fascinating, annoying, and a little bit ridiculous."
"Slop" was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value. The definition...