Chatflattery: “ChatGPT told me that decorating a cake with icing made of ham would be ‘unconventional, but potentially delicious.’”
The Guardian shares this and 17 other new terms in a glossary for our tech hellscape.
My favorites:
Captchore: “We must have wasted several millennia ensuring we have clicked all the various parts of a bicycle on a captcha grid of someone’s front garden.”
Limpetlisting: “Thanks for buying a new sofa three weeks ago. Fancy buying another? We’ve got a sale on!”
Loginsanity: “Let your phone suggest a ‘strong password’ on your behalf and your laptop won’t remember it, leaving you fruitlessly trying to recall a string of ampersands and semicolons.”
Schrödinger’s Wifi: “You connect to the network and wait. And wait. And wait. It says you’re connected, but there are no tangible signs that your device even knows what the internet is.”
Hostageware: “Want to print things at home, on the printer you bought, with the ink you also bought? At least a fiver a month.”
David Duncan coined a set of these for AI, my favorite is Syntherity: “Your departure leaves an irreplaceable void, but this new chapter will bring unparalleled opportunities for fulfillment.”
I have a side hobby collecting these. If you know others, please share.