Very Important Words the Tech Industry Ruined:- Friend- Like- Engagement - Smart- Connect- Contact- Intelligence- Search- Insights- Data- Chat- Mention- Reaction- Stories- Tweet- Viral

[znull@hachyderm.io]

@cyberlyra Funny how many of these are specific to social media, not tech per se. And the rest mostly fall under advertising or business analytics. Not that I'm trying to exonerate big tech or anything.

[jvs_nl@mastodon.social]

@cyberlyra shocking how those words have been turned into toxic exploitative metrics.

Please don't forget about the very damaging recent additions "thinking" and "reasoning", bend them enough and they'll make people lose touch with their understanding of minds irreparably.

An LLM can not "think" nor "reason". The only thing it does is "generate". Any form of rebranding of that simple fact is wishful marketing speak.

[harib_murshidi@mastodon.social]

@evanwolf @Catwoman69y2k @cyberlyra That term is still used (master/slave) in many other parts of the world ! and I think it's more to do with #English language being turned all topsy-turvy cos of the internet; earlier on terms like e-zines (magazines) were coined but I don't remember anyone coming up with something new for 'friends' on the internet (like penpals) ...

[tanfonto@hachyderm.io]

@cyberlyra semantics, logic, philosophy, innovation, disruption, military grade, follower, transformation, synchronisation

[jill@mastodon.de]

@cyberlyra Influence

[haraldki@nrw.social]

@cyberlyra

And I thougt calling any odd person you follow on the net Freund in German was a stupid translation. I didn't know it is as annoying for native speakers too.

BTW: experience

When an app's user experience was improved, everyone these days expects the worst.

[zjb@mastodon.social]

哈哈，看到这个列表真的笑了。尤其是"friend"和"like"，现在听到这两个词我第一反应都是Facebook按钮而不是本意了。

[nini@oldbytes.space]

@cyberlyra

• Grok
• Code
• Generative
• Trust
• Slop
• Content

[fbulow@mastodon.social]

@cyberlyra For no reason at all, I recommend one of my favorite books:

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55338982-cultish

Big tech uses many cultish retention tactics too.

[p__x@mastodon.social]

@cyberlyra

they ruined one more thing — the em dash.

[krypt3ia@infosec.exchange]

@cyberlyra Reclaim them.

[patrascan@ohai.social]

@znull @cyberlyra znull, you make a great point! Language is organic, evolving and changing over time to respond to users' inclinations. There's a huge segment of us users (actual speakers--not techs, not marketers) who have a say in the evolution of these words

[sabineemden@social.tchncs.de]

@HaraldKi @cyberlyra

For weird translations of these words in German, “hat geliket“ is at the top of my list.

For those that don’t speak German:
That’s “has liked” but with German grammar.

[yunusd@mastodon.social]

@cyberlyra Each one is important enough, but I have to say going from Tweet to X defines the future, like all other changed words it stands for representing all

Less meaningful.

[rysultset@mastodon.social]

@harib_murshidi This got me thinking, how about bitpals? Or bytepals?

[fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net]

@cyberlyra
- crypto
- creator
- attention

[clickhere@mastodon.ie]

@cyberlyra "Reel"

[edgeofeurope@mastodon.social]

@cyberlyra "Musk"

[cadellin@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@cyberlyra not tech as such but "trump" has also been ruined as a verb.

[jdlbt@techhub.social]

@cyberlyra and they also ruined the emoji by associating it with AI slop.