{"id":158234,"date":"2025-11-25T05:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/158234\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T05:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:02:08","slug":"macquarie-dictionary-announces-ai-slop-as-its-word-of-the-year-beating-out-ozempic-face-artificial-intelligence-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/158234\/","title":{"rendered":"Macquarie Dictionary announces \u2018AI slop\u2019 as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face | Artificial intelligence (AI)"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI slop<\/a> is here, it\u2019s ubiquitous, it\u2019s being used by the US president, Donald Trump<\/a>, and now, it\u2019s the word of the year.<\/p>\n

The Macquarie Dictionary dubbed the term<\/a> the epitome of 2025 linguistics, with a committee of word experts saying the outcome embodies the word of the year\u2019s general theme of reflecting \u201ca major aspect of society or societal change throughout the year\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand now in 2025 what we mean by slop \u2013 AI generated slop, which lacks meaningful content or use,\u201d the committee said in a statement announcing its decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile in recent years we\u2019ve learnt to become search engineers to find meaningful information, we now need to become prompt engineers in order to wade through the AI slop. Slop in this sense will be a robust addition to English for years to come.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question is, are the people ingesting and regurgitating this content soon to be called AI sloppers?\u201d<\/p>\n

The term was up against a shortlist<\/a> of other cultural moments and terminology, including: Ozempic face (a condition resulting from the use of a semaglutide drug); blind box (a type of mystery box containing an unseen collectible); ate (and left no crumbs) (an expression used to indicate that someone has performed or executed something perfectly; and Roman Empire (a term for various events, interests or subjects, that one finds themselves frequently thinking about).<\/p>\n

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Honourable mentions selected by the committee included clankers, a term for an artificial intelligence-driven robot which completes tasks that are normally performed by a human; and medical misogyny, referencing entrenched prejudice against women in the context of medical treatment and knowledge.<\/p>\n

The people\u2019s choice also went to AI slop, with honourable mentions for medical misogyny and the attention economy (an economy in which human attention is treated as a major commodity).<\/p>\n

The committee was made up of the editorial team at Macquarie Dictionary as well as the ABC language research specialist Tiger Webb and cryptic crossword legend David Astle, better known as DA.<\/p>\n

Astle wrote<\/a> that AI slop was this decade\u2019s equivalent of spam in a piece for the Sydney Morning Herald.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI slop, to be precise, the clear victor of the Internet category,\u201d he wrote. \u201cHandily the barb can be packed into fusions, such as slopaganda, slop music and corpslop, to name three.<\/p>\n

\u201cThough come the crunch, the robots won twice over. Not just their clanker slur, but the scrumptious slop they serve on demand. Alphabet soup du jour with a splash of unknown sources.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AI has only grown from its already stratospheric origins over the last 12 months. Trump has regularly uploaded videos featuring AI slop to his millions of followers, and was dubbed the \u201cemperor\u201d of such content by the New Yorker earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Domestically, the Australian Electoral Commission has warned<\/a> AI is being used more and more in many forms of communication, saying while there are some benefits, there are obvious negatives, too. Those harms include deepfake videos, manipulated media and falsified audio.<\/p>\n

Guardian Australia asked ChatGPT how it felt about AI slop being dubbed 2025\u2019s word du jour.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that AI slop won Word of the Year tells me that people are becoming more discerning about the quality of AI-generated content,\u201d the AI engine said. \u201cThat\u2019s good for everyone \u2013 including the development of better AI \u2013 because it creates pressure for transparency, accuracy, and substance rather than volume.\u201d<\/p>\n

ChatGPT said being asked about the honour was a helpful reminder \u2013 a prompt, if you will \u2013 about its purpose.<\/p>\n

\u201cI exist to avoid producing exactly what the term refers to \u2013 so seeing it elevated to a cultural milestone is a bit like being reminded of the standard I need to live up to every time I answer a prompt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI slop is here, it\u2019s ubiquitous, it\u2019s being used by the US president, Donald Trump, and now, it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-158234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}