{"id":17309,"date":"2026-10-01T10:11:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17309"},"modified":"2026-09-23T10:15:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:15:05","slug":"new-ai-terms-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17309","title":{"rendered":"New AI terms for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Meat Proxy:<\/strong> slang for a human who mindlessly copies\/relays between a large language model (LLM) and another person. The phrase was coined by software engineer Niklas Gruhn in an August 2026 blog post titled <em>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Be a Meat Proxy,&#8221;<\/em> where he complained about coworkers dumping unreviewed AI slop into Slack channels and GitHub code repositories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Clanker<\/strong>: Originally a sci-fi robot insult from <em>Star Wars<\/em>, now used online to mock AI, chatbots, customer service bots, or people acting like them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Slopper<\/strong>: A person who uses generative AI to lazily churn out massive amounts of low-quality text or images (&#8220;slop&#8221;).<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meat Proxy: slang for a human who mindlessly copies\/relays between a large language model (LLM) and another person. The phrase was coined by software engineer Niklas Gruhn in an August 2026 blog post titled &#8220;Don&#8217;t Be a Meat Proxy,&#8221; where he complained about coworkers dumping unreviewed AI slop into Slack channels and GitHub code repositories. Clanker: Originally a sci-fi robot insult from Star Wars, now used online to mock AI, chatbots, customer service bots, or people acting like them. Slopper:&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17309\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4vb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17310,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17309\/revisions\/17310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}