SLOP - 2025 Merriam Webster Word of the Year

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• 2025 Word of the Year: Slop
• The Slop Cycle—How Every Media Revolution Breeds Rubbish and Art
• AI Detectors Don’t Work. Here’s What to Do Instead.
• Jerry Garcia: Rap Is Not Music
• Frank Sinatra on Rock and Roll
• EAT YOUR SLOP, PIGGIES AI Slop Now Invading Spotify’s Discover Weekly Lists
• Hieronymus Bosch
• Spotify’s New Policy Won’t Stop the Wave of AI Slop
• Spotify Strengthens AI Protections for Artists, Songwriters, and Producers
• Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
• Labeling AI-generated content properly (and how to avoid it)
• The Garden of Earthly Delights
• ASCAP, BMI and SOCAN Announce Alignment on AI Registration Policies
• THE DOS AND DON’TS OF COPYRIGHTING AI MUSIC IN THE U.S.
• Billboard Says AI-Generated 'Artists' Now Top the Charts Weekly – Will Spotify Even Do Anything About it?
• The only thing worse than bad AI music is good AI music
• Italian Brainrot: the global paradox of italian digital creativity
• Francesco Luongo
• The real winners from Trump’s ‘AI action plan’? Tech companies
• Trump Ends Biden-Era AI Executive Order
• UMG wants to turn Udio into a Slop Machine.
• HELL BY HIERONYMUS BOSCH

• AI Detection and assessment – an update for 2025
• BMI History
• Deezer’s new tool identifies AI songs: a revolution incoming?
• Honest musician vs Wealthy Musician
• Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence
• Benedict Evans Linked In post