In a year dominated by the booming AI industry and an overwhelming flood of digital creations, Merriam-Webster has crowned "slop" as its 2025 Word of the Year. This four-letter word acts as a judgment on the sprawling glut of low-quality content now clogging screens and social media feeds everywhere.

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.”

AI video generators like Sora have wowed with their ability to quickly create realistic clips based merely on text prompts.