@giffmana doesn't it defeat the entire purpose of having this word by asking ai lucas
Lucas Beyer (bl16)@giffmana
@infoxiao I would say nichtslopfreude, but i think this was a good use of my Fable5 quota, right??
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Google DeepMind's Xiao Ma highlights the irony of using AI to coin words for appreciating non-AI writing
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Google DeepMind engineer Xiao Ma started a thread by asking for a term that captures the pleasure of reading essays free of AI phrasing. An AI chat was then asked to generate a German-style compound word, landing on Echtfederwonne. Ma immediately noted the contradiction in turning to the very technology the word is meant to celebrate.
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The prompt itself undercuts the point
Ma replied directly that asking an AI to invent the term defeats its purpose, leaving the exchange as a short, self-aware loop rather than a serious linguistic project.
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A human suggestion still felt stronger
Researcher Lucas Beyer offered his own compound word and judged it preferable to the AI result, while wondering whether a later model might close the gap.
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Lucas Beyer (bl16)@giffmana
@infoxiao For now i think i was still better than the model, but if gpt4.5 was still among us (rip) i think it would've crushed humanity at this task.
Xiao Ma@infoxiao
@giffmana doesn't it defeat the entire purpose of having this word by asking ai lucas
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Lucas Beyer (bl16)@giffmana
@infoxiao (But yeah asking ai was the joke)
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