A developer coined the term "meat proxy" to denote a person who blindly forwards AI-generated text or code without any form of review.
'Meat Proxy' Names Those Who Pass On AI Output Unchecked
"Meat proxy" describes people who relay AI-generated text, code or analysis to others without verifying it, a term coined by engineer Niklas Gruhn.
‘Meat Proxy’ Is the New Term for People Who Just Forward AI Responses. Are You One?
"AI slop" now has a friend. "Meat proxy" is a new way to describe too much reliance on AI content.
How "Meat Proxy" Is The Latest Hilarious AI-Related Pejorative
Meat Proxy is the latest AI-spawned term, referring to someone who blindly pastes AI outputs withing looking at them.
Meat proxy: why developers are fed up with AI replies
Developers use meat proxy to call out colleagues who forward unchecked chatbot text, saying it creates noise. Read what the term reveals
What is a 'meat proxy'? The new term for coworkers who blindly share AI output
"Meat proxy" refers to someone who sends outputs straight from Claude or ChatGPT without analyzing them. It's caught on with techies on X.
Meat proxy
A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.
Don’t be a meat proxy
Niklas Gruhn coins an excellent new term - meat proxy - for people who blindly copy and paste the output of AI systems to their peers. By all means, prompt …
Are you a 'meat proxy'? The latest AI slang, explained.
If you send unreviewed ChatGPT outputs to your coworkers, this new insult may apply to you.
BBC World Service - The Explanation, The Media Show: Meet the 'meat proxies'
The humans who’ve become mouthpieces for text written by AI
For the love of God, stop calling your AI a co-worker | TechCrunch
A growing number of startups are anthropomorphizing AI to build trust fast -- and soften its threat to human jobs.
AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it? | Arwa Mahdawi
Low-quality ‘slop’ generated by AI is crowding out genuine humans across the internet, but instead of regulating it, platforms such as Facebook are positively encouraging it. Where does this end, asks Arwa Mahdawi
Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild Happened
Researchers simulated a social media platform that was populated entirely by AI to see if we can stop them from turning into echo chambers.
Someone Is Manipulating Your AI to Swing Your Vote | VisionHeight
A network of 37 anonymous “local news” sites, set up in a single evening, is feeding ready-made midterm answers to the AI chatbots voters increasingly consult.
AI Use in The Scholarly Kitchen - The Scholarly Kitchen
Some thoughts on the reader response the Scholarly Kitchen has seen regarding AI use by authors, a recent Nature News article on the efficacy of AI detection tools, and why it's important to keep experimenting to figure out what's ethically acceptable.
AI companies are asking their employees to flag AI writing — and one wants a steak emoji
AI companies are tired of employees passing off AI chatbot output as their own and are rolling out writing guidelines.
Open source project contains hidden instruction for “AI” agents: delete my code
It’s no secret there’s a war going on inside the open source community, with people adopting “AI” on one side, and those that want nothing to do with it on the other. While the former are, by nature, using destructive tactics like mass website scraping, license washing, taking people’s creative works without permission, taking all the RAM and GPUs, and oh, destroying the planet, the latter have mostly stuck to fairly benign things like policies banning “AI” use, “AI” bot blockers, and the occasional honey pot mazes to trap “AI” crawlers.