Merriam-Webster

Merriam-Webster appears in Bytes: Week in Review - Micron’’s big earnings, Oracle’’s data center woes and “slop” is Merriam-Webster’’s word of the year as the dictionary publisher that named “slop” its 2025 word of the year. The Marketplace Tech episode uses that choice to discuss AI Slop, platform quality, AI-generated articles, and consumer fatigue with synthetic online material.

Its wiki role is a language-signal page. Merriam-Webster’s selection shows that “slop” has moved from a critical AI-media label into public vocabulary, reinforcing earlier wiki concerns around AI Content Devaluation, AI Content Provenance, and Model Collapse.

Connections

• AI Slop - concept named by the word-of-the-year segment.
• AI Content Devaluation and AI Content Provenance - adjacent content-quality and disclosure concerns.
• Model Collapse - feedback-loop risk discussed in connection with AI-generated content.
• Marketplace Tech - source context.