<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://americandialect.org/2025-word-of-the-year-is-slop/" target="_blank">https://americandialect.org/2025-word-of-the-year-is-slop/</a><br><div><br></div><div>The American Dialect Society, in its 36th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected "slop" as the Word of the Year for 2025. More than three hundred attendees took part in the deliberations and voting, in an event hosted in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America’s annual meeting.<br>The word "slop" was recognized for its widespread use for low-quality, high-quantity content, most typically produced by generative AI. While "AI slop" was a nominee in the American Dialect Society’s 2024 Word of the Year vote, in 2025 "slop" could stand on its own, with the AI context often implicitly understood. "Slop" was also recognized as a productive combining form to describe anything of little value generated in mass quantities.<br> Presiding at the Jan. 9 voting session were Ben Zimmer, chair of the ADS New Words Committee, and Dr. Kelly Elizabeth Wright of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "'Slop' isn’t a new word. It has moved from the pig sty, to the algorithm, and now forms new compounds such as 'sloppunk,' 'slopification,' and 'friend slop,'" Dr. Wright said. "This productivity has no end in sight."<br></div><div><br></div><div>The full press release, including all winners, candidates, and vote tallies for all candidates, is here:<br><a href="https://americandialect.org/2025-word-of-the-year-press-release/" target="_blank">https://americandialect.org/2025-word-of-the-year-press-release/</a></div></div>
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