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AI spam, fake videos, and junk content turned a centuries-old word into the perfect label for today’s internet. It’s official: 2025 was the year of slop.

The Morning Addition team along with producer Austin talk about Merriam-Webster's Word of the year "Slop". Plus, holiday travel: yes or no? And exercising in the new year. Watch more on Queen City News+ using your Roku,

“Like slime, sludge, and muck, slop has the wet sound of something you don’t want to touch. Slop oozes into everything,” the dictionary writes, adding that, in an age of AI anxiety, it is a term designed to communicate “a tone that’s less fearful, more mocking” of the technology.

SNL has joked about artificial intelligence in sketches this year, including one in January starring Timothée Chalamet and Bowen Yang that poked fun at AI’s proclivity for producing images of people with extra fingers. And in a sketch last month, Glen Powell played a grandpa pictured in old photos brought to life in an AI app gone wrong.

For us linguists, the flurry of "word of the year" announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as anticipated as mince pies. The words of the year aren't just a fun peek into new slang and language changes,

Newhouse School professor of advanced media Shelly Palmer explains how to navigate the everchanging world of AI by avoiding what is called "AI slop."

To be clear: Disney is not handing the keys to its IP over to OpenAI indefinitely. In an interview with CNBC ’s “Squawk on the Street” Thursday, Disney CEO Bob Iger clarified that the three-year licensing deal comes with only about a year of exclusivity for OpenAI. After that, Disney can shop its IP to other AI companies.