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of AI culture.
Words, memes and behaviors from the AI age.
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These three terms are a good place to start.
Making software by asking an AI for changes and trying the results, often without reading much of the code it writes.
Cheap, repetitive AI-generated content that clogs a feed or search result without giving you much worth reading or watching.
A meme showing an AI as a strange creature wearing a smiley-face mask: friendly on the surface, hard to understand underneath.
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Vibe Coding & the Art of Winging It
Making things with AI, fussing over prompts and figuring out what you actually built.
AI Slop & the Generated Feed
The words for repetitive posts, unearned praise and the feeling that nobody is really talking.
Monsters, Robots & Paperclips
A smiling monster, a robot insult and an AI with far too many paperclips. Here is what the references mean.
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Browse all termsAI Doomer
SlangA label, often dismissive, for someone seen as highly concerned that advanced AI could cause catastrophic harm, potentially including human extinction.
Ghiblification
SlangUsing generative AI to transform an image into a visual style resembling Studio Ghibli animation.
Hallucination Tax
SlangAn emerging phrase for the extra checking, correction or risk created when AI output cannot simply be trusted. The same phrase has a narrower technical meaning in a 2025 AI research paper.
Jailbreak
BehaviorsAn attempt to use prompts to make an AI model bypass restrictions on what it is supposed to say or do.