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AI Memes: A Field Guide.
Meet the shoggoth, the clanker, and the paperclip maximizer. Explore the jokes and stories that give AI culture its vocabulary.
A strange creature, an insult for a robot, a factory that never stops making paperclips. AI memes compress complicated feelings into images and punchlines. Read them as cultural shorthand, with room for both the joke and the idea underneath it.
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An AI meme depicting an alien, tentacled creature behind a friendly smiley-face mask: a metaphor for a model beneath its helpful interface.
A mocking term for a robot or AI, used in internet jokes that pretend humans and machines have become rival social groups.
A thought experiment about an AI pursuing a simple goal—making paperclips—so relentlessly that it ignores everything humans actually value.
Obsessively tuning prompts to squeeze a better result out of an AI, sometimes long after the extra effort stops being useful.