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\t\t\tLAS VEGAS, NEVADA – JANUARY 09: Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella speaks during a keynote address by Walmart Inc. President and CEO Doug McMillon during CES 2024 at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas on January 9, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world’s largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs through January 12 and features about 4,000 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to more than 130,000 attendees. (Photo by Ethan Miller\/Getty Images)\n\t<\/p>\n
In mid-December 2025, the editors of Merriam-Webster\u2019s dictionary chose \u201cslop<\/a>\u201d as their word of the year. Their definition: \u201cdigital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s no mystery why they felt the term best described 2025. It was a year beset by uncanny AI-generated ads<\/a>, search engine decay<\/a>, and a tidal wave of AI music<\/a> spamming streaming apps.<\/p>\n Though the choice clearly struck a popular nerve, not everybody appreciated the dictionary\u2019s cheeky dig at AI companies and the cottage industry of slop they\u2019ve engineered. In a year-end roundup<\/a> shared via LinkedIn, for instance, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made it clear that he\u2019d prefer we all left the term in 2025.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication,\u201d Nadella wrote in a rambling post flagged by <\/a>Windows Central<\/a>, arguing that humanity needs to learn to accept AI as the \u201cnew equilibrium\u201d of human nature. (As WC points out, there\u2019s actually growing evidence<\/a> that AI harms human cognitive ability.)<\/p>\n Going on, Nadella said that we now know enough about \u201criding the exponentials of model capabilities\u201d as well as managing AI\u2019s \u201c\u2018jagged\u2019 edges\u201d to allow us to \u201cget value of AI in the real world.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cUltimately, the most meaningful measure of progress is the outcomes for each of us,\u201d the CEO concludes, in an impressive deluge of corporate-speak that may or may not itself by AI-generated. \u201cIt will be a messy process of discovery, like all technology and product development always is.\u201d<\/p>\n Nadella\u2019s comments come as Microsoft users have revolted en masse against the company\u2019s AI products, which have largely been forced on them without consent. Earlier in December, it was reported that a staggering one billion PCs<\/a> were still running Windows 10, even though a full half were eligible to upgrade to the AI-satured Windows 11<\/a>.<\/p>\n That being the case, it\u2019s obvious the CEO has a specific axe to grind with the people who refuse to go gentle into the sloppified night. Tech CEOs like Nadella might talk a big game<\/a> about altruism and human achievement, but at the end of the day, AI is a product \u2014 and like any product, it lives or dies by consumer demand.<\/p>\n