Slop was elected "Word of the year" 2025 by Merriam-Webster. "Slop" designate creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content . The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year. in other means : Absurd videos, weird advertising images, cheesy propaganda, fake news that looks real, junky AI-written digital books