Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says it’s time to stop talking about AI ‘slop’ and start talking about a ‘theory of the mind that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools’

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2025 was “slop,” the catch-all term for machine-generated crapola—or, as Merriam-Webster more prosaically (and politely) defines it, “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by...