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AI Memes: A Field Guide.
A smiling monster, a robot insult and an AI with far too many paperclips. Here is what the references mean.
Some AI jokes make sense as soon as you see them. Others need a backstory. Meet the shoggoth behind the smiley mask, find out why a chatbot might get called a clanker, and follow the paperclip story to its absurd ending. The related promptmaxxing entry turns to the person typing into the chat.
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A meme showing an AI as a strange creature wearing a smiley-face mask: friendly on the surface, hard to understand underneath.
A mocking name for a robot or AI, often used in jokes about humans picking a fight with machines.
An imaginary AI that pursues making paperclips at any cost, used to explain what happens when a goal leaves out everything else we care about.
Endlessly tweaking an AI prompt in pursuit of the perfect answer, sometimes spending more effort on the prompt than the task.