{"id":286880,"date":"2026-02-16T15:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/286880\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:19:06","slug":"theres-a-grim-new-expression-aidr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/286880\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s a Grim New Expression: “AI;DR”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The internet is so overrun with AI that anywhere you go, you run the risk of accidentally stepping into a puddle of slop<\/a>. If only there were a gallant gentleman always at hand to drape their coat over these muddy obstacles so you could avoid ruining your day.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not quite on that level, but some netizens are proposing a new term to call out AI slop so other people can avoid wasting their time \u2014 or to just make fun of the person peddling it: \u201cAI;DR,\u201d or \u201cai;dr,\u201d short for \u201cAI, didn\u2019t read.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is of course a riff on the classic internet slang \u201cTL;DR\u201d \u2014 \u201ctoo long; didn\u2019t read\u201d \u2014 which is used to both introduce a summary of a lengthy block of text or proclaim that it\u2019s being ignored for its lengthiness. Now, the latter usage is being repurposed against AI.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not ready to christen AI;DR a word of the year yet, but it does appear to be gaining moderate traction online<\/a>, after a recent post<\/a> on Threads drew attention to it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all need to adopt that right quick,\u201d one user on Bluesky said of the phrase, in a semi-viral post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The term has been used in the past<\/a>, but never took off. Anti-AI sentiment, however, is higher than ever. The actual word of the year<\/a> for 2025, as crowned by Merriam-Webster, was \u201cslop,\u201d a testament to just how much AI backlash has escalated in a pretty short amount of time, even as seemingly the entire economy doubles down on pouring money into the tech.<\/p>\n

A programmer who goes by Sid enthused about the new slang.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, writing is the most direct window into how someone thinks, perceives, and groks the world,\u201d Sid wrote in a blog post<\/a>. \u201cOnce you outsource that to an LLM, I\u2019m not sure what we\u2019re even doing here. Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn\u2019t be bothered to write?\u201d<\/p>\n

Taking a \u201cglass half full\u201d outlook, it\u2019s grim that this is a necessary measure in the first place. On the flip side, at least more of us are choosing not just to ignore slop, but to bully the people spreading it.<\/p>\n

TL;DR: AI;DR calls out AI slop and warns other humans not to bother.<\/p>\n

More on AI: As OpenAI Pulls Down the Controversial GPT-4o, Someone Has Already Created a Clone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The internet is so overrun with AI that anywhere you go, you run the risk of accidentally stepping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-286880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}