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Having to make a whole website to make a cringe-ass word happen is so fetch
Urban Dictionary says: Fetch Stop trying to make it happen. It's not going to happen. "That's so fetch!" "Shut up, Gretchen. Stop trying to make fetch happen. It's not going to happen." Fetch by KamIsTotallyFuckingAwesome May 17, 2011 Word of the Day on March 30, 2019
and also
fetch slang for cool or awsome. Used in mean girls by Grechen Weener. Omg Kadi you love him. That is so fetch. Grechen stop trying to make "fetch" happen! It's not going to happen! fetch by Kayla February 8, 2005
But from context I can tell you mean the first one :)
Us older generation thank you.
I understand not everyone has seen Mean Girls, but it's kind of funny that the film itself is ancient (22 years old I believe without looking it up)
Edit: Just checked. Yep, it came out in 2004.
Haven't seen Mean Girls but know the meme. When it came out, I was a teenager and in the target audience.
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That's dedication.
Yeah, I'm not using this.
So hard to just say "no AI"
C'mon man. The cool kids haven't made a new word in like 2 weeks now, and they're itching to manufacture more distinguishing mannerisms and prove their edginess. So fetch; cro nap, slipwoosh.
Same amount of characters too
What's with the first z?
Without it it sounds like "use AI"...
Quite a dumb word.
It’s how you describe the horrifying new generation of Chuck E. Cheese establishments: zoo’s ai
What's wrong with "no AI"?
“AI-free” is also apparently too many words
Noai. This program/poster/image is noai. Easy.
That won't get you a book deal like a "new word" will. The author thinks this will make him the next Cory Doctorow.
We have too many of those already...
It takes too many words to say that. /sarcasm
And most of the internet seems to be UZI
Using Zero Intelligence
Or other alternatives like "organic".
Artisinal /joking
Would the market for organic food be the behemoth that it is if the choice of label had been something like "synthetic pesticide-free"?⁷
Edit: direct quote from article
not sure why this is getting downvoted, it's an actual quote from the site.
It's getting downvoted because it's answering the question with another question. They might as well have just replied with the 🤷 emoji, for how useful of an answer it is.
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I don't know and we will never know. But the word is just appropriated. They didn't invent a new word. They could have just as well used the word natural for the marketing. Both words are similarly meaningless.
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I prefer "slop free"
Slopn't
That's so stupid sounding. I'm not sure AI didn't write it.
Please stop
Cringe
we have fuck tons of acronym and new words already
plz stahp
forced meme
"An author doesn't use LLM" does take too many words. It's much faster to tell someone they use a "zuzai writing process" and then proceed to explain to them what that word means in the first place.
But to be real for a moment, I think a neologism that just means "no AI" is giving more power to the "AI industry".
The website gives an example, the word vegan. It's as if someone who eats meat felt like it takes too many words to say "meat eaters" and made up a new word for it in opposition to veganism. If anything, they would be solidifying veganism.
Note: yes, people say carnivore when talking about meat eaters. But that wasn't invented solely for this use and also it's not precise.
“Carnist” is popular in online vegan spaces, though fortunately I’ve never heard an irl vegan use the term because to be honest it sounds silly and/or dirty when said aloud
Huh, I haven't encountered it yet. The word makes me think of carnality, so yeah... I'm not gonna use it any time soon. Thanks, I'll know what people are talking about in the future. 🙂
I think that's a little bit different though, that's vegans having a name for another group they're opposing. I find it similarly silly as zuzai though 😃
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It's quite annoying that it's a recursive acronym, and I would imagine will add confusion and hinder any wider spread adoption, or at the very least understanding of it
We use lots of acronyms like regular words, it just takes a little time for them to become embedded in the language. Everyone knows what a LASER is, if not how it works or what the letters stand for. We check the weather RADAR, put in our PIN codes when checking out at the supermarket, and write out our addresses with ZIP codes. Eventually the acronyms just turn into regular words for most people.
I think in line with Trump trying to rename things, artificial intelligence should be renamed by the rest of the world to “American intelligence”.
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