AI slop

[ ey-ahy slop ]noun

Machine-made output that is long, generic, and worth very little.

Explanation

Merriam-Webster made slop its 2025 Word of the Year, the same year Collins picked vibe coding, which tells you most of what you need to know about that year. It covers code, documents and bug reports now, not just writing.

Related words

• slop PR — An unasked-for, AI-written change that takes longer to read than the fix would have taken to write.
• vibe debt — Shortcuts and mess piling up as fast as a machine can type.