New Delhi, Feb. 4 -- A poisonous miasma pervades the world today. Slop is a part of that miasma. 'Slop' was picked as 'word of the year' for 2025 by some publications. Its sound evokes what it means-low-quality, high-volume digital content generated by artificial intelligence (AI). The word once meant 'wet food waste or mud,' but now in its new avatar, it fills an urgent void and helps us label what we are inundated by.

Across the world, there is also a deluge of utter nonsense that makes the poison around us more lethal. Often in the form of slop, but in too many other forms to list comprehensively here. For example, the speeches of some self- proclaimed gurus, politicians and businesspeople, media articles and shows that masquerade as ...