Speaking with popular AI content creators convinces me that “slop” isn’t just the internet rotting in real time, but the early draft of a new kind of pop culture. Lately, everywhere I scroll, I keep ...

YouTube’s janitors are swooping in to mop up the slop. As reported by Deadline, the Google-owned video platform has terminated two massive YouTube channels that peddled fake, AI-generated movie ...

Low-cost indie titles took over co-op gaming this year, and they’re embracing their ‘slop’ label. Low-cost indie titles took over co-op gaming this year, and they’re embracing their ‘slop’ label. is a ...

Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L), Education Futures, University of South Australia Over the past three years, generative artificial ...

Merriam-Webster selected ‘slop’ as its 2025 Word of the Year, defining it as low-quality AI-generated digital content that increasingly floods the internet. PCWorld reports this AI-related definition ...

Merriam-Webster likens the word “slop” to terms like “slime”, “sludge” and “muck”, and says it conveys a wet, unpleasant sound. Something you’d rather not touch. Over the year, the word is considered ...

The Turing test, a long-established tool for measuring machine intelligence, gauges the point at which a text-generating machine can fool a human into thinking it’s not a robot. ChatGPT passed that ...

Gail Flanagan received funding from the Research Ireland (formally the Irish Research Council) in 2021-2023 for PhD research unrelated to the current article. For us linguists, the flurry of “word of ...

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 (AI), landed it ...

After a full year of hectic news, original trends and nonstop content, Merriam-Webster has summed it all perfectly in one word: “slop.” On Dec. 15, Merriam-Webster announced “slop” as the 2025 Word of ...

Merriam-Webster named “slop” its 2025 word of the year, reflecting rising skepticism about low-quality AI-generated content flooding the internet. Rolling Stones scrap 2026 stadium tour after Keith ...