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● 14/12/2025
“All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again.”
– 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.”
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● 08/12/2025
“You will be shocked to learn that the AI George Washington created by Glenn Beck sounds exactly like what would happen if Glenn Beck built an AI George Washington to sound exactly like Glenn Beck.”
– Progressive media watchdog Right Wing Watch, dunking on the ideologically convenient AI rendition of the first U.S. President that the conservative political commentator ‘hosted’ on his program
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● 08/12/2025

Building on cyberethnographer Ruby Justice Thélot’s ARTnews meditation on AI and digital folk art creation, critic Louis Bury lists ten examples—art, books, essays—that speak to this tension in 2025. Bury’s picks include Dean Kissick’s dissection of “The Vulgar Image,” Agent 5.5’s QAnon-esque John Pork TikTok lore, artist Maya Man’s “funhouse vision of TikTok vernacular’s over-the-top banality” for the Whitney, and Nadia Asparouhova’s cult hit book Antimemetics (2025).

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● 29/10/2025

Tired of all the slop? Tega Brain’s browser extension Slop Evader (2025) uses the Google search API to only return content published before Nov 30, 2022—the day OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT onto the world. “Sure, the info is a couple of years old, but at least you know a human wrote it,” the New-York-based artist quips on Instagram. Slop Evader is available to download for Chrome and Firefox.

Slop Evader
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