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.
What’s wrong with “no AI”?
“AI-free” is also apparently too many words
That won’t get you a book deal like a “new word” will. The author thinks this will make him the next Cory Doctorow.
Noai. This program/poster/image is noai. Easy.
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.
Making a word for it is stronger reinforcement that everyone is treating ai as the default.
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.
So fetch
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.
