'Authentic' named Merriam-Webster's 2023 word of the year
In an age of deepfakes and post-truth, as artificial intelligence rose and Elon Musk turned Twitter into X, the Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2023 is "authentic."
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![FILE - A Merriam-Webster dictionary sits atop their citation files at the dictionary publisher's offices on Dec. 9, 2014, in Springfield, Mass. Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.” A red Merriam-Webster dictionary sits on top of a drawer in a file cabinet.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7040841.1701092952!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/merriam-webster-word-of-the-year.jpg)
In an age of deepfakes and post-truth, as artificial intelligence rose and Elon Musk turned Twitter into X, the Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2023 is "authentic."