Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Editors at Merriam-Webster picked "slop" as 2025's word and say it helped define the year overall.
On Sunday, America's oldest dictionary publisher said amid talk about the growing threats related to artificial intelligence that the word slop set "a tone that's less fearful" and was "more mocking."
"The flood of slop in 2025 included absurd videos, off-kilter advertising images, cheesy propaganda, fake news that looks pretty real and junky AI-written books," according to a release.
The Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster said it defined slop as digital content of "low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence."
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