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Merriam-Webster “announces” new AI as a prank

Grant St. Clair
Oct 02, 2025
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Merriam-Webster Dictionary

The marketing campaign for the recently-announced twelfth edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary is a little… scary. While a dictionary technically can be considered a “large language model”, albeit not a very interactive one, it’s fair to say no one had thought of using that term to describe it before Merriam-Web…

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