{"id":10236,"date":"2025-12-29T16:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=10236"},"modified":"2025-12-29T16:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:42:15","slug":"merriam-websters-phrase-of-the-12-months-delivers-a-dismissive-verdict-on-junk-ai-content-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=10236","title":{"rendered":"Merriam-Webster\u2019s phrase of the 12 months delivers a dismissive verdict on junk AI content material"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Like most instruments, generative AI fashions could be misused. And when the misuse will get dangerous sufficient {that a} main dictionary notices, you already know it has change into a cultural phenomenon.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Merriam-Webster introduced<\/a> that \u201cslop\u201d is its 2025 Phrase of the Yr, reflecting how the time period has change into shorthand for the flood of low-quality AI-generated content material that has unfold throughout social media<\/a>, search outcomes, and the online at giant. The dictionary defines slop as \u201cdigital content material of low high quality that’s produced often in amount via synthetic intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s such an illustrative phrase,\u201d Merriam-Webster President Greg Barlow advised<\/a> The Related Press. \u201cIt\u2019s a part of a transformative know-how, AI, and it\u2019s one thing that folks have discovered fascinating, annoying, and slightly bit ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Like most instruments, generative AI fashions could be misused. And when the misuse will get dangerous sufficient {that a} main dictionary notices, you already know it has change into a cultural phenomenon. On Sunday, Merriam-Webster introduced that \u201cslop\u201d is its 2025 Phrase of the Yr, reflecting how the time period has change into shorthand for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[2177,4611,7162,3504,7161,7163,5942,97],"class_list":["post-10236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news","tag-content","tag-delivers","tag-dismissive","tag-junk","tag-merriamwebsters","tag-verdict","tag-word","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10237,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10236\/revisions\/10237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}