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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 New development could ...

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AI’s impact on our social media feeds has not gone unnoticed by one of America’s top dictionaries. Amidst the onslaught of content that has swept the web over the past 12 months, Merriam-Webster ...

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The American dictionary defines slop as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” The human editors of the publisher said that the slop ...

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