Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/25/ai-slop-word-of-the-year-macquarie-dictionary-australia

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ptz@dubvee.org · 74 pts · 281d (13 replies)

I had to google "Ozempic face" because I've apparently been living under a rock.

In case anyone else was under a rock...

From Cleveland Clinic:

Zikeji@programming.dev · 101 pts · 281d (7 replies)

It's worth noting that Ozempic face is a side effect of rapid weight loss, not a side effect of Ozempic.

TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub · 30 pts · 281d

Was going to quote just that, from the same article:

‘Ozempic face’ isn’t a side effect of the medication itself. Rather, it’s a side effect of the rapid weight loss the medication can bring.

Oh wait, I did anyway.

a1studmuffin@aussie.zone · 25 pts · 281d (1 reply)

It's a sign of the times that the effects of rapid weight loss are attributed to a drug since most people don't know what it looks like!

Jhex@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 280d

People don't experience rapid weight loss because, in general, it's not a good thing

Surely, most overweight people simply never lose the weight... but losing weight rapidly is itself unhealthy and most people who experience rapid weight loss do so because of trauma or disease

sparkles@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 281d (2 replies)
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Cryxtalix@programming.dev · 2 pts · 281d (1 reply)

Isn't that just how you would've looked like if you were 30lbs lighter all along? The sagging skin is due to weight loss sure, but your bones definitely didn't change.

despoticruin@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 280d

When you lose weight that fast the fat around your body isn't removed equally, and you still have the extra skin left once the weight is gone. It takes a few months to a year to have everything even out.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 281d

people were pointing out the cast of "wicked" , said they were all on GLP-1.

Regna@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 281d

Thank you for saving me from searching it up.

Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 280d

TIL about ozenpic face being what happens when you lose weight and the skin doesn't tighten up after removing the excess

I had a buddy I went to college with who I saw 4-5 years later who lost like 300+ sounds and looked like that. Well before ozenpic.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 280d

it's just the effect of sudden weight loss.

mark@programming.dev · 5 pts · 281d

Is this any different from how one starts to look as they grow older in age?

ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 280d

Thank you

MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 281d (4 replies)

That is 2 words (or 3 depending how you count the abbreviation). You'd think a dictionary could get that right.

frongt@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 281d
Eccentric@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 281d (1 reply)

Fun fact: linguists don't actually know what defines a "word"

KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 280d

Why is this downvoted, it's actually a real thing

Linguists struggle to find an exact definition of what a word is because speakers of different languages have different opinions of what a word is, and some languages make the distinction unclear

helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 281d

Neither of those are 1 word. At least hyphen them to pretend they're one word.

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 281d

But it’s not a word.

Cybersteel@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 281d

Personally I think it should have been six seven