I feel vindicated...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-25/ai-slop-named-macquarie-dictionary-word-of-the-year-2025/106047682
Nov. 24, 2025
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Honestly, for a "word of the year", it's so limp, it could easily have been A.I. generated.
6 7 as the new "whatever", for mine. Breaking new literary ground, a completely useless phrase, for no reason at all.Ron
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Well each to their own.
Just the other day when researching sensor pixel sizes I had two correct answers and then the third was "Camera ABC doesn't have a pixel size but instead has X by Y pixels" and a bit more rubbish unrelated to the query.
After seeing so many incorrect statements by AI I was just happy to see a negative. If that's what enough people suggested to get the dictionary's nod then I can live with it. No doubt there are plenty of other emotive choices but I think the limpness speaks for a lot of people's general disillusionment with AI - and also sick of the media buzz word hype.
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From Google AI
The "word of the year" depends on the dictionary, but recent choices include
"parasocial" (Cambridge Dictionary), "vibe coding" (Collins Dictionary), "tariff" (Dictionary.com), and "AI slop" (Macquarie Dictionary). -
Especially as "AI slop" is not a word ...
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... if I could downvote! 😉
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Hi,
Wait. Is that AI is Definitive or that AI is Defective?
Couldn't resist. :P
Stan
Amateur Photographer
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Good bash!
xpatUSA (Ted Cousins)
