Sloppy choices

Another day, another dictionary chooses its word of the year.

- Joseph T. Gonzales

This time, it’s “AI slop” - which are two words, mind you, but that didn’t stop Macquarie dictionary from picking them as its word of choice. Oh well, considering that Macquarie also considered “Ozempic face”, “blind box” and “ate (and left no crumbs”) as likely candidates, who needs to quibble about little details like the definition of “word”, right?

“AI slop” refers to all the mush we are being fed by the internet. The memes, the vignettes, the slapstick humor --all those crappy, cheesy, and crass stuff pushed by the algorithm on us, every single moment we linger on our gadgets, and which we happily, thoughtlessly keep on consuming, not knowing that our brain cells are slowly deteriorating, our attention spans getting shorter, our tempers fraying, and our addiction taking ever firmer hold.