Words rising across the internet right now.
Writing software by telling a model what you want and keeping what runs, instead of typing every line.
An image-editing product whose name spiked as people searched for a Photoshop alternative.
Low-effort, high-volume AI text or media that fills feeds without adding much.
A dated Anthropic Claude Haiku release used as a search name the week it shipped.
AI systems that take a goal and then plan, call tools, and act across steps without a prompt each time.
ByteDance’s video-generation model family, used as a named search term after each version drop.
Google’s tool for spotting SynthID watermarks; the durable search is “ai image detector.”
An open-source spreadsheet written in Rust; the repo name itself became the search term.
An open standard for connecting models to tools and data sources through a shared interface.
A Qwen text-to-image model version that entered Hugging Face trending as a new name.
Hiding instructions in text or pages so a model follows the attacker instead of the developer.
Spending more inference-time thinking on a hard question instead of only training a bigger model.
A Lightricks image-to-video model name that appeared on Hugging Face’s trending list.
Asking a model to write intermediate steps before the final answer.
A named autonomous penetration-testing project that broke out as a GitHub repository.
Letting a model look up documents at answer time instead of relying only on training weights.
Oxford’s 2024 word for the feeling that too much low-quality online content is dulling your mind.
A phishing-resistant login that uses a device-bound public key instead of a password.
Search that answers with a model instead of, or on top of, a list of blue links.
The quality drop when models are trained on too much of their own previous output.
Model weights you can download, even if the license is not fully open source.
When a model states something false with the same confidence as a true answer.
A program that uses a model to decide actions toward a goal, often with tools and memory.
A prompt or trick that gets a model to ignore the safety rules its maker set.
A job posting the company does not actually intend to fill right now.
Training or test examples generated by a model or a simulator instead of collected from people.
Shopping or checkout where an agent finds, compares, and buys on a person’s behalf.
A cheap way to adapt a large model by training small rank-decomposition matrices.
A model that routes each token to a few specialist sub-networks instead of using every parameter.
Synthetic audio or video that makes a real person appear to say or do something they did not.
An online identity that performs 1950s-style homemaking, often as a political or commercial aesthetic.
Countries and firms reducing their use of the U.S. dollar for trade or reserves.
Training a model to prefer answers humans rank as better, using a reward model.
The problem of making models do what people actually intend, including in the long run.
Cory Doctorow’s word for platforms that get worse as they squeeze users, then business customers.
A one-sided bond a viewer feels with a creator who does not know them.
Public-key algorithms meant to stay hard even if a large quantum computer arrives.
Using already-staked tokens again to secure another protocol, and to earn another yield.
Charli XCX’s 2024 album-as-aesthetic: lime green, messy confidence, mid-party energy.
Speeding up generation by letting a cheap draft model guess tokens a larger model then checks.
Overwhelming someone with attention and gifts early, often as a control move.
The hidden cost of prompts that nobody owns, versions, or tests as the model changes.
The Chinese-internet name for a race where everyone works harder and nobody gets ahead.
Creators telling audiences not to buy a hyped product, or to buy a cheaper stand-in.
Interfaces that treat the room as the canvas: headsets, hands, and mixed overlays.
Companies doing climate work but saying less about it, to avoid greenwashing attacks.
When a platform quietly stops showing your posts without telling you that you are banned.
A neural scene representation that reconstructs a 3D view from a set of photographs.
Spending a whole day in bed on purpose, as rest rather than as illness.
A Chinese refusal of grind culture: do less, opt out of the promotion race.