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 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 ...

Springfield-based dictionary company Merriam-Webster has announced that “Slop” is the Word of the Year for 2025. Trump bashes late director Rob Reiner, drawing immediate backlash Why does Bermuda ...

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 ...

“Slop,” a term used to describe low-quality digital content, has been named word of the year by the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The dictionary defines slop as “digital content of low quality that is ...

A growing surge of fake or weird content online often called ‘slop’ has been named Word of the Year 2025. The Merriam-Webster dictionary’s human editors said they defined slop as “digital content of ...

The newest definition of "slop" is described as "absurd videos, off-kilter advertising images, cheesy propaganda, fake news that looks pretty real" and more Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend ...

Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...