“Slop” was named Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year.AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin
What is ‘slop'? Everything to know about Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year
It was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but the definition has evolved to "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence."