The words behind the weirdness
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AI Glazing
Excessive AI-related praise: a chatbot flattering its user, or a person praising AI so enthusiastically that criticism disappears.
AI Slop
Low-quality, mass-produced AI content that fills a feed or search result without offering much care, meaning or value.
Clanker
A mocking term for a robot or AI, used in internet jokes that pretend humans and machines have become rival social groups.
Context Rot
The feeling that a long AI chat has lost the plot: old instructions, forgotten details and a conversation that keeps going in circles.
Dead Internet Theory
The claim that much of the internet’s activity is manufactured by bots and automated systems rather than people; also a loose metaphor for an inauthentic-feeling web.
Paperclip Maximizer
A thought experiment about an AI pursuing a simple goal—making paperclips—so relentlessly that it ignores everything humans actually value.
Promptmaxxing
Obsessively tuning prompts to squeeze a better result out of an AI, sometimes long after the extra effort stops being useful.
Shoggoth
An AI meme depicting an alien, tentacled creature behind a friendly smiley-face mask: a metaphor for a model beneath its helpful interface.
Vibe Coding
Building software by describing what you want to an AI and steering the results through conversation, often without closely reading the generated code.
Vibe Researching
Exploring a subject through AI-generated explanations and summaries while letting plausibility substitute for checking the underlying evidence.