3 ms·
2025 Word of the Year: Slop
- OgsyedIE 10mo agoI'd like to see an examination of how the phrase 'human slop' rose and fell in this year. Initially emerging as a counterpoint, it's now receded.
- thatgerhard 10mo agoI watched that show on netflix where the professional song writers would write potential hit songs.. that was the closest thing to human slop I've seen
- lvspiff 10mo agoI've noticed amoung colleagues who are not fond of ai usage they love to call out "slop". If a line of code is too verbose or too succinct it must be ai. If a routine doesn't use the function they created when it's something tangentially related it must be ai slop. It's like the new form of gatekeeping.
- jasonthorsness 10mo agoThis one is an apt pick. I only worry it’s early and the true wave of slop is not yet upon us.
- binary132 10mo agowe badly need AI-free spaces
- ChrisArchitect 10mo agoSome other WOTY selections: Oxford 'rage bait' https://corp.oup.com/news/the-oxford-word-of-the-year-2025-is-rage-bait/ https://corp.oup.com/news/the-oxford-word-of-the-year-2025-i... Collins 'vibe coding' https://blog.collinsdictionary.com/language-lovers/collins-word-of-the-year-2025-ai-meets-authenticity-as-society-shifts/ https://blog.collinsdictionary.com/language-lovers/collins-w... Cambridge 'parasocial' https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2025/11/18/cambridge-dictionary-word-of-the-year-2025/ https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2025/11/18/cambridge-di... Dictionary.com '67' https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-year-2025/ https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-year-2025/
- OgsyedIE 10mo agoDo any websites collect lists of WOTY by year?
- ChrisArchitect 10mo agohm, suppose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_the_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_the_year
- OgsyedIE 10mo agoSo anybody making a site for it now would be struck down by Google Panda. It's a shame there's no niche to support a middle ground.
- jackfranklyn 10mo ago[flagged]
- ottah 10mo agoI actually think in practice the meaning has always been "things I dislike". Before AI you could see it applied to all kinds of things in media, WWE is slop, Soap Operas are slop, Genre Fiction is slop. It's almost exclusively a pejorative based on taste, intended to throw scorn on what other people enjoy. When a person uses it I stop listening, because essentially the speaker has stopped saying anything of value.
- deleted 10mo ago[deleted]
- kentbrew 10mo agoI was thinking "upended," but "slop" is also a fine choice.