Social Media
A humorous image, video, or text that is widely shared and often modified by users across social media platforms.
What is a meme?
This AI chatbot, developed by OpenAI, gained widespread attention for its natural language processing abilities.
What is ChatGPT?
Unsolicited, usually commercial messages (such as emails, text messages, or Internet postings) that are sent to a large number of recipients or posted in a large number of places.
What is a spam?
This technology creates a simulated environment that can be similar to or completely different from the real world.
Virtual reality
A feeling of anxiety or apprehension that you are not in the know about or missing out on something.
What is fear of missing out (FoMO)?
Content that rapidly gains popularity and is widely shared across social media platforms.
What is viral?
A subset of AI that involves algorithms allowing computers to learn from data and improve their performance over time without explicit programming.
Machine Learning (ML)
Shoddy or unwanted A.I. content e.g., use glue to stick cheese to pizza.
What is slop?
This device tracks fitness metrics and can be used to make contactless payments.
What is a smart watch?
The fear of being without a mobile phone.
What is nomophobia?
Content designed to attract attention and encourage clicks, often misleading or sensationalized.
What is clickbait?
A series of algorithms that mimic the operations of the human brain to recognize patterns in data; they are fundamental to deep learning.
Neural Networks
This type of scam involves tricking individuals into providing sensitive information via email.
What is phishing?
A network of physical devices connected to the internet that can collect and exchange data.
What is an internet of things (IoT)?
The emotional reaction to receiving or not receiving a text, maintenance of relationships via text, and/or excessive use of texting.
What is texting dependency?
A user who intentionally provokes or annoys others online by posting inflammatory comments or content.
What is a troll?
AI systems that can generate new content, such as text or images, based on learned patterns from existing data.
Generative AI
The negative effects of consuming low-quality or meaningless online content.
What is brain rot?
This term refers to interactive technologies that allow users to create, share, and engage with content within virtual communities and networks.
What is social media?
Feeling nervous, bored, and/or isolated when you are without your smartphone.
What is mobile phone dependency?
A set of rules used by social media platforms to determine what content appears in a user's feed based on their interactions.
What is an algorithm?
Advanced AI models trained on vast amounts of text data to understand and generate human-like language responses.
Large Language Models (LLMs)
A phenomenon where an artificial intelligence system, particularly a large language model (LLM), generates false, misleading, or illogical information and presents it as if it were factual.
What is AI hallucinations?
The simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think and learn.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Texting without thinking or intending to do it.
What is texting automaticity?