Simon Willison 12/15/2025

2025 Word of the Year: Slop

Read Original

The article announces that Merriam-Webster has selected 'slop' as its 2025 Word of the Year. The term is officially defined as low-quality digital content, typically produced in large quantities using artificial intelligence. This highlights a key tech industry and AI ethics topic regarding the proliferation of AI-generated material.

2025 Word of the Year: Slop

Comments

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!

Browser Extension

Get instant access to AllDevBlogs from your browser

Top of the Week

2
Designing Design Systems
TkDodo Dominik Dorfmeister 2 votes
4
Introducing RSC Explorer
Dan Abramov 1 votes
6
Fragments Dec 11
Martin Fowler 1 votes
7
Adding Type Hints to my Blog
Daniel Feldroy 1 votes
8
Refactoring English: Month 12
Michael Lynch 1 votes
10