{"id":185635,"date":"2026-02-08T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/merriam-websters-2025-word-of-the-year-takes-aim-at-poor-ai-content\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T21:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:15:11","slug":"merriam-websters-2025-word-of-the-year-takes-aim-at-poor-ai-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/merriam-websters-2025-word-of-the-year-takes-aim-at-poor-ai-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Merriam-Webster\u2019s 2025 word of the year takes aim at poor AI content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/merriam-webster-2025-word-takes-140140336.html\">Merriam-Webster\u2019s 2025 word of the year takes aim at poor AI content<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/merriam-webster-2025-word-takes-140140336.html\">https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/merriam-webster-2025-word-takes-140140336.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-08 19:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.aol.com\">www.aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Merriam-Webster recently named &#8220;slop&#8221; as its word of the year, referring to low-quality digital content typically produced by artificial intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>The dictionary defines &#8220;slop&#8221; as a term for digital content of low quality, often exemplified by absurd videos and AI-generated outputs like talking cats and books.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Slop&#8221; is the latest in a series of dictionary word-of-the-year selections focused on technology and artificial intelligence, reflecting contemporary societal concerns.<\/li>\n<li>The word evolved from its 18th-century meaning of &#8220;soft mud&#8221; to &#8220;food waste&#8221; and then broadly to mean &#8220;rubbish&#8221; or &#8220;worthless product.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Merriam-Webster&#8217;s statement humorously suggested that &#8220;slop&#8221; conveys a message to AI about its limitations in replacing human creativity.<\/li>\n<li>Other candidates for word of the year included &#8220;gerrymander,&#8221; &#8220;touch grass,&#8221; and &#8220;performative,&#8221; each reflecting significant trends in politics, real-world engagement, and social behavior.<\/li>\n<li>Last year\u2019s choice was \u201cpolarization\u201d to describe sharply divided views in American politics, and 2023 saw &#8220;authentic&#8221; selected due to rising online searches about AI and identity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merriam-Webster\u2019s 2025 word of the year takes aim at poor AI content https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/merriam-webster-2025-word-takes-140140336.html Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/cv\/apiv2\/aolfp\/images\/og-image.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-185635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185637,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185635\/revisions\/185637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}