Link: https://zuzai.org/

I had seen the #zuzai tag on mastodon a few times and had no idea what it was, but discovered a whole site dedicated to the new word. It's pronounced like "zoo's eye." You might say an author uses a zuzai writing process, or a teacher requires a zuzai testing environment. Is it a little pretentious to set up a whole website to justify the weird, new retronym you just came up with in a fit of ennui? Maybe. But I like zuzai, it encapsulates something that currently takes a lot of words to otherwise explain, and I hope it worms its way into the public zeitgeist.

Having to make a whole website to make a cringe-ass word happen is so fetch

What's wrong with "no AI"?

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 :)

"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.

It takes too many words to say that. /sarcasm

It's about framing. By saying "no AI" you're acknowledging that the default selection is "AI". By making a word for it you're putting both concepts back on equal footing. That's how I think about it at least.

“AI-free” is also apparently too many words

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

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.

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.

By making a word for it you're putting both concepts back on equal footing.

But they're inherently not equal concepts.

“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

Noai. This program/poster/image is noai. Easy.

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

not sure why this is getting downvoted, it's an actual quote from the site.

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 😃

spam. slop. enshittification. we've had plenty of words enter everyday vocabulary. they all had to start somewhere (granted enshittification in particular is pretty easy to grasp without ever having seen it before).

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.

Slop is not a new word at all. Spam is a name for then new concept. Also both happened much more naturally (hey, or organically) Enshittification is one word that was pushed by one person and people fell in love with it for some reason.

Look, invent new words. That's how languages work. Especially languages like English. But then don't complain that it's too many words or there are no words to say "AI free", because newly invented neologisms will always require more words in real conversations.

I mentioned the real problem (as perceived by me) below. I didn't say we shouldn't add new words to our languages at all. Admittedly, zuzai specifically also just happens to sound terrible and silly.

Us older generation thank you.

I think in line with Trump trying to rename things, artificial intelligence should be renamed by the rest of the world to “American intelligence”.

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.

Yeah that’s like so old like cringe.

Making a word for it is stronger reinforcement that everyone is treating ai as the default.

Yeesh

That's dedication.

usefetch.org

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.

And most of the internet seems to be UZI

Using
Zero
Intelligence

Since we've obviously all read the article before commenting, I thought I'd post a short snippet as a reminder that the author has considered the question.

Cringe

Oh good, I'm glad the author considered the question.

Tell me when he answers it.

That won't get you a book deal like a "new word" will. The author thinks this will make him the next Cory Doctorow.

Yeah, I'm not using this.

So hard to just say "no AI"

Enshittification isn’t a new word, it was just found. We’ve had “shit” for a long time, then Cory added “en-“ to become, “-ify” to direct an agent of change, and “-tion” to nominalize. It’s understandable and works within the context of the language, by people who hear it even once. It’s conjugatable, “enshittified,” “disenshittify,” and everyone knows what this means by familiarity of the language.

When I see “zuzai,” I see a Japanese i-adjective that I can’t get a meaning for. It’s just hanging out there and it makes me want to reach for a dictionary, but I’ll never find it, cause I don’t even have the right language to begin with.

EDIT:

Turns out it’s a noun, not even an i-adjective. Jail for slop peddlers though?

I mean, you could read the thing.

forced meme

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.

22 years = ancient?

Enlightenment is gonna hurt.

I did. He literally does not answer the question. He "considers" it, as you said, and then moves on. Here's the context of the quote you posted earlier:

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 Admittedly it's not a kale-to-kale comparison, but I hope the point is clear. Why mention AI if the point is avoidance of AI?

He asks a question, then says "I hope the point is clear" without saying what the point is, and then asks another question. He then naively follows-up that nonsense with:

These AI-focused terms do bring the advantage that they are instantly understood, but look how quickly "slop," "6-7," and "enshittification" were able to enter the lexicon.

Those entered the lexicon because they're fucking words. They are sounds and arrangements of letters tied to concepts that we know and understand. You don't have to read an entire website to understand what "enshittification" means, as it's made up of words you already know. "zuzai" has no such connection because some guy just made it up. That's precisely why "no AI" and "AI-free" are the better options, because it uses words you already know.

At this point, I question whether or not you've read the thing. Because I don't understand how anybody can read this and think "Yeah this is a good idea" instead of "This is just a bunch of attention-seeking nonsense to boost his LinkedIn following for when he announces his upcoming book".

6-7

Or other alternatives like "organic".

That's so stupid sounding. I'm not sure AI didn't write it.

In the context of film, yes. Two decades is a very long time ago. 22 years is a lot for a film, not so much for a building. Funny how things can be seen differently in different contexts.

Edit: It's all about perspective. But people don't like to be reminded they get older, I guess. https://lemmy.world/post/52285117

Artisinal /joking

We have too many of those already...

Please stop

Same amount of characters too

So fetch

This is the scene. It's actually funny.

GIF:

unfortunately this is true of <20s from what I've heard