Slop” is the new Merriam-Webster word of the year, thanks to the flood of low-quality artificial intelligence images and ...

"Slop" was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value.

AIs are easily acing the SAT, defeating chess grandmasters and debugging code like it’s nothing. But put an AI up against some middle schoolers at the spelling bee, and it’ll get knocked out faster ...