Abstract: Diffusion models are a powerful class of techniques in ML for generating realistic data, but they are highly prone to overfitting, especially with limited training data. While data ...

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If you’ve been scrolling through endless low-quality content this year, Merriam-Webster 2025 Word of the Year sums it all up. The online dictionary revealed that its editors have chosen "slop" as ...

Following Oxford's recent reveal, the winning term reflects growing public awareness - and bemusement - over the rise of AI-produced material in everyday life.

The dictionary has selected one word every year since 2003 to capture and make sense of the current moment. Here’s Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year – and what it means.

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is “slop.” The word was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud. It evolved more generally to mean something of little value.

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, ...

Here are the year’s most notable picture and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Jennifer Krauss Jennifer Krauss ...