It's been a little over a year since this incident and I haven't used #MerriamWebster since, so I thought I'd check in on the site and GUESS WHAT.

They've completely removed Twitter and Facebook share links. IMAGINE THAT. The very thing they blocked me over.

I was right, @merriam-webster.com. 🖕🏽

#merriamwebster #swiftie #cancelled #actuallyromantic #Yellowstone

L’éditeur américain de dictionnaires Merriam-Webster poursuit OpenAI pour violation du droit d’auteur par ChatGPT Principaux renseignements Merriam-Webster et l’Encyclopedia Britannica ont engagé une action en justice contre OpenAI, alléguant une violation du droit d’auteur dans l’entraînement de ChatGPT. Utilisation non autorisée de matériel protégé par le droit d’auteur La plainte soutient qu’OpenAI a utilisé illégalement plus de 100 000 articles, entrées d’encyclopédie et définitions de dictionnaire provenant de sources […]

L’éditeur américain de dictionnaires Merriam-Webster poursuit OpenAI pour violation du droit d’auteur par ChatGPT #MerriamWebster #OpenAI #droitdauteur #violation #ChatGPT

Amerikaanse uitgever van woordenboeken Merriam-Webster klaagt OpenAI aan door schending van auteursrecht door ChatGPT Key takeaways Merriam-Webster en Encyclopedia Britannica hebben juridische stappen ondernomen tegen OpenAI wegens vermeende schending van het auteursrecht bij het trainen van ChatGPT. Ongeoorloofd gebruik van auteursrechtelijk beschermd materiaal In de rechtszaak wordt gesteld dat OpenAI op illegale wijze meer dan 100.000 artikelen, encyclopedie-items en woordenboekdefinities uit online bronnen heeft gebruikt om ChatGPT te trainen. […]

Amerikaanse uitgever van woordenboeken Merriam-Webster klaagt OpenAI aan door schending van auteursrecht door ChatGPT #auteursrecht #MerriamWebster #OpenAI #ChatGPT #rechtszaak

Big thumps up for #MerriamWebster "s social content producers.

Informative and funny. Stuff we need right now.

#Sverige #socialContent #ContentCreator

Encyclopedia Britannica Sues OpenAI Over 100,000 Copied Articles Encyclopedia Britannica has sued OpenAI for allegedly copying nearly 100,000 articles to train ChatGPT, adding trademark claims over AI hallucinations.

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Encyclopedia Britannica Sues OpenAI Over 100,000 Copied Articles

#AI #ChatGPT #OpenAI #CopyrightInfringement #FairUse #CopyrightLaws #IntellectualProperty #Legal #Litigation #EncyclopediaBritannica #MerriamWebster #AICopyright

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI, accusing ChatGPT of copying thousands of their reference entries For more than two centuries, Encyclopedia Britannica has positioned itself as a carefully edited gateway to reliable knowledge. Now the publisher is stepping into court, accusing OpenAI of using that ...

Encyclopedia Britannica & Merriam-Webster say OpenAI’s ChatGPT may have learned a little too much from their pages. Now a copyright fight is brewing, with questions about AI hallucinations and where the line gets drawn. 📚⚖️ #Britannica #MerriamWebster #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Lawsuit

The dictionary sues OpenAI | TechCrunch Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster say that OpenAI violated the copyright of almost 100,000 articles by using them for LLM training.

The #dictionary sues #OpenAI

#EncyclopediaBritannica and #MerriamWebster have filed a #lawsuit against @openaibot.bsky.social , alleging in its complaint that the #AI giant has committed “massive #copyrightinfringement.”

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#MerriamWebster

A promotional image of DreadistVT's Wordy Wednesday stream. It shows his model on the left and the game Reunion's logo with the text “The right words bring them together” in the center over the game's cover art in the background. It depicts a fox and a hedgehog next to each other with a painted landscape of hills and trees in the background. Underneath them, a grid of white, yellow, and green tiles can be seen with different letters upon them.

🚨Stream is alive!🚨
Today, we are trying something new! It's no secret that I love the English language and find rare words fascinating. So let's play some Reunion and learn some words! 🦊🦔

LIVE: The first Wordy Wednesday...
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#VSky #VTuber #ENVtuber #MerriamWebster #Reunion

Word of the day is dodgy

#merriamwebster #agenda #dodgy #racism #indoctrination #rhetoric #bullshit #mcdonaldland

euphemistically call #ICE #DetentionCenters.”

#Cable #news call them #PrisonCamps or #TrumpPrisonCamps, but look in any #dictionary: #prisons are where people #ConvictedOfCrimes are held. As #MerriamWebster notes, a #prison is:

“[A]n #InstitutionForConfinement of #PersonsConvictedOfSeriousCrimes.”

My kid asked, "You have the broken heart?" I am celebrating Catherine O'Hara today by sharing my original creation, the "Film and Television's Moira Rose Dictionary". While many of her characters spoke to me, Moira will always be my spirit animal. 🖤
@merriam-webster.com
#merriamwebster #moirarose

Making America GREAT Again.

Trump’s GREAT Healthcare Plan.

Somebody needs to tell #MerriamWebster to update the dictionary because GREAT now means “totally fucked up.”

a man is lifting a barbell in a gym with a sign that says no problem o ALT: a man is lifting a barbell in a gym with a sign that says no problem o

✨ I’m curious: Do some people figure out weaknesses and then try to harm further or… do they attempt to harm based on what hurts them?

I ask because… I think a lot of us share certain weaknesses…

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❤️

#Vocabulary #Weakness #Psychology #MerriamWebster

I finally have this beauty in hand! ♥️ I never thought I’d be this excited about a new dictionary, but it’s a lot of fun to explore. And it’s so cool (nerdy) that I follow a bunch of the editors who worked on this and know their names. 😅📖
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#MerriamWebster #Dictionary #Nonfiction #Bookstagram

Picturesque?

Is this outing me for all the in game photos I take & art that I dabble with? 🤣

#wordoftheyear #merriamwebster

"Inspiring" it is - I'll take that for 2026.
#MerriamWebster #WordFor2026 #Inspiring

I like this one 😊
It reminds me of Jill Scott’s “Golden” sung live in “Dave Chappelle’s Block Party” film 🎼
I would love to feel like that in 2026.

#fun #words #writingcommunity #music #MerriamWebster #NewYear

AbsolutelyArsenal on X: "for each like this post gets I will copy down one word from the @MerriamWebster dictionary online version in alphabetical order" / X for each like this post gets I will copy down one word from the @MerriamWebster dictionary online version in alphabetical order

for each #like this post gets, I will copy down one word from the @merriam-webster.com #dictionary online version in alphabetical order

#merriamwebster

This #challenge runs alongside the one sent on #X: x.com/VeryBigGunne...

Likes on both platforms count

Blossom Puzzle, December 24
Letters: C F M E O R T
My score: 326 points
My longest word: 9 letters
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#MerriamWebster

Is the Dictionary Done For? The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a revolution.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Is the Dictionary Done For? #dictionary #MerriamWebster #lexicography I sincerely hope this isn't true!

"AI Slop" Isn’t a Critique. It’s a Defense Mechanism. The term “AI slop” is increasingly used to dismiss artificial intelligence. This essay argues it functions as a selective epistemic slur—applied to machines, never to humans.

Humans produce oceans of banality every day. We call it “content.”

When AI does it, we call it “slop.”

That asymmetry is doing real cultural work—and it isn’t quality control.

#AISlop #Slop #MerriamWebster #NewWord #Dictionary

Blossom Puzzle, December 21
Letters: A I N C O P T
My score: 444 points
My longest word: 14 letters
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#MerriamWebster

2025 Word of the Year: Slop Plus 'gerrymander', 'touch grass', 'performative', and other words that defined the year

Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year: Slop (chosen by humans) www.merriam-webster.com/word...

#MerriamWebster #WordOfTheYear #ai #GenerativeAI #slop

Blossom Puzzle, December 20
Letters: A C E B L R T
My score: 385 points
My longest word: 11 letters
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#MerriamWebster

Finally a name for the mess!
Merriam-Webster’s 2025 Word of the Year is "slop" - defining the mass of low-quality AI garbage flooding our feeds.

Time to take out the digital trash! 🗑️🤖

#Funtellect #Slop #wordoftheyear2025 #USA #MerriamWebster #wordoftheyear

Blossom Puzzle, December 19
Letters: A E I S N R T
My score: 490 points
My longest word: 15 letters
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#MerriamWebster

2025 Word of the Year: Slop...

#Oxford #MerriamWebster

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