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AI Lore
The stories and theories people refer to, sometimes without explaining them.
Dead Internet Theory
The idea that bots have taken over much of the internet; also a joke about feeds that seem empty of real conversation.
Loab
A recurring, unsettling AI-generated woman discovered by artist Supercomposite in 2022 and nicknamed the first cryptid of the latent space.
P(doom)
An informal estimate of the chance that advanced AI leads to an existentially catastrophic outcome, often human extinction. Exactly what counts as ‘doom’ varies.
Paperclip Maximizer
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.
Roko's Basilisk
A thought experiment about a future AI that punishes people who knew it might exist but did not help bring it into existence.
Stochastic Parrot
A critical metaphor for language models as systems that string together likely words without truly understanding what those words mean.