"Gerrymander," "performative" and "touch grass" were also popular words users of the dictionary looked up in the past year.

Webster's Word of the Year for 2025, meaning more people than ever need to "touch grass," which, as it happens, is also one of the 194-year-old dictionary's top words of 2025. "We define slop as ...

Traditionally, slop referred to soft mud, waste food, or other messy, valueless substances. But in 2025, the word has taken on a new cultural meaning - it’s now used to describe AI-generated digital ...

AI spam, fake videos, and junk content turned a centuries-old word into the perfect label for today’s internet. It’s official: 2025 was the year of 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.

From ‘rage bait’ to ‘parasocial’ to ‘vibe coding,’ 2025’s picks trace an internet-era feeling of exhaustion, skepticism — and figuring out what’s real ...

Like most tools, generative AI models can be misused. And when the misuse gets bad enough that a major dictionary notices, you know it has become a cultural phenomenon. On Sunday, Merriam-Webster ...

If you're even minimally attuned to the zeitgeist, you've heard the term "AI slop." It's a generalized disdain for almost anything generated by "artificial intelligence," as though the involvement of ...

After a full year of hectic news, trends and non-stop content, Merriam-Webster has summed it all perfectly in one word.

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

AI’s impact on our social media feeds has not gone unnoticed by one of America’s top dictionaries. Amidst the onslaught of content that has swept the web over the past 12 months, Merriam-Webster ...