NEW DELHI: Once upon a time, new words made the world feel larger. They came from science, from art, from discovery. They named planets, ideas, emotions. They made language feel like progress. In 2025 ...

“Slop,” a term used to describe low-quality digital content, has been named word of the year by the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The dictionary defines slop as “digital content of low quality that is ...

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year tends to say a lot about the past 12 months — and how ready we as a society are to give up, toss our calendars and hope the next 12 are better. Last year, following ...

YouTube is no longer just tweaking its rules around low‑effort AI content, it is now terminating entire channels that flood the platform with what creators and viewers have started calling “AI slop.” ...