– Merriam-Webster dictionary editors, on what makes ‘slop’ the defining word of 2025. They define slop as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence,” and note: “Like slime, sludge, and muck, slop has the wet sound of something you don’t want to touch. Slop oozes into everything.” As AI slop flooded the internet, “people found it annoying, and people ate it up.”