Microsoft leader Satya Nadella addressed humanity via the Internet and wrote that we need to get over disparaging AI creations and using the term “AI slop”.
The oldest dictionary publisher in the United States, the company Merriam-Websterchooses the “expression of the year” every year. In the past 2025, it was the term “slop“, which reached its popularity in conjunction with the abbreviation AI.
I know you know, but lest someone say we didn’t explain: AI slop is a term used in a negative context to describe digital content generated by artificial intelligence, usually of poor quality and in large quantities.
Why are we writing about it? Well, AI slop is a very popular term, but as it is used pejoratively, it is not liked by everyone who advocates the growth and development of artificial intelligence tools so that they can earn even more from them than they are earning now. One of those is, of course, the head of Microsoft, Satya Nadella.
Recently, Nadella addressed humanity with a post expressing his vision for the future of 2026. The announcement sounds sophisticated, almost as if it was generated by artificial intelligence, and the most notable part is that Nadella believes that humans would should stop using the term slop in tandem with the term AI.
“We have to get over the discussions about Slou versus sophistication and develop a new balance in our ‘theory of mind’ that takes into account that humans are now equipped with these new cognitive enhancers as we interact with each other.” – writes Nadella.
So, “artificial intelligence” has become a “cognitive enhancer”? He packed it nicely!
It’s not hard to understand why Microsoft would want AI to have no negative connotations. Just look at any segment of that company’s business in 2025 – chances are high that AI has become a part of that business to some extent, whether users asked for it or not. And that’s ultimately the crux of the situation – Microsoft seems to think they need user feedback to tell them what they want from their products. Instead, they feel that they should give feedback to the users themselves about what they want from them. In this case they want us to stop talking and writing AI slop.
I’ll be disappointed if the first ten comments on this post don’t read “AI slop”.