Webster, was "slop," referring to the deluge of low-quality content churned out by artificial intelligence (AI).

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If you had any doubt that social media have taken over our lives, the words of the year (WOTY) for 2025 will dispel it—with ...

Respondents to an annual Michigan college survey of overused and misused words and phrases say “6-7” is “cooked” and should ...

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Merriam-Webster names “slop” its 2025 Word of the Year, spotlighting the rise of low-quality AI-generated content flooding ...

What has changed is the source material. For young people growing up in a digital world, quotable moments don’t come from films or TV but from TikTok edits, Roblox streams, speedrun memes, Minecraft ...

I don’t expect 2026 to deliver all the answers. But the questions we press — about power, accountability, money and meaning — will decide how we let AI reshape our world. Here’s to staying curious, ...

In 2024, the University of Oxford named “brain rot” as the word of the year.

Once upon a time, we really used to put a lot of effort into spinning content – written, visual, and interactive – to publish ...

AI now fuels heated debates from the boardroom to the classroom. Yet for all the hype, and all the money, some of the biggest ...

There was a time when adults seemed extremely puzzled about Gen Z slang. But it looks like Gen Alpha has taken over that task ...