Zuzai, a new word, indicates the absence of AI
23 points by FedericoSchonborn
23 points by FedericoSchonborn
Why "AI-Free," "no-AI," "non-AI," and "not by AI" are lacking something
Would the market for organic food be the behemoth that it is if the choice of label had been something like "synthetic pesticide-free"?
And the solution to that is using a word that's actually the acronym of a much longer sentence... that also has AI in it?
Zuzai uses zero artificial intelligence
I'm reading this as: "A single word describing what something is, is catchier / more helpful than multiple words describing what something is not."
I don't think somebody reading "zuzai" is supposed to expand the acronym in their minds. They read the word and understand the meaning directly.
heh yeah seems silly.
Still, using "ai" as a lower-case vowel combination pronounced eye feels meaningfully distinct from "AI" as part of a compound word pronounced ay - eye.
No thank you.
I have strong doubts that a recursive acronym is going to catch on with a general audience. Worse yet, it's not built from common parts like "non-", so you must expand the acronym to understand it.
Neat idea, I will give it a whirl.
Neat, but also, it's a typo of the Polish first name Zuzia. It can't possibly help with discoverability.
I'll run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes it, but I'm afraid that it will be like trying to make fetch happen.
I don't think the Should I be more clear about what I mean by "AI"? section does a sufficient job arguing why today's marketing definition of "AI" is the real one when they demonstrate that the meaning has changed rapidly in just the last few years. What good is this new word if "AI" means something completely different a year or three from now? Is this word against all the things that have been called "AI" over the past 40+ years? Maybe the new word should be "zuzai26".
Just steal "ekte" (pronounced ek-tuh) from Norwegian. I always liked it and used to mix it in english when around other norwegian speakers. It means "real" but seemed to somehow communicate a more sanguine sense of realness or authenticity in just 4 short letters.
Ah, cognate of German echt (real, genuine), I expect.
Yup! All the Nordics (sic; includes Finnish because of loan words) have a version of it. English also has it (as in "it's in all the dictionaries") directly borrowed from German as "echt", so it's an echt English word too and I for one would much rather use it instead of "zuzai"!
I think a variant of handmade or handcrafted would work better; the exact meaning of "handcrafted" changes as the tool stack automates more routine stuff but the intent is usually clear.
a more pressing issue is the code vs content distinction - I really don't care if someone's video game engine or blogging software uses AI code, but I do care if the game assets or blog posts are AI generated. I would like to see something that makes this dichotomy clearer. (as for why I hold this stance - I don't particularly value originality in code. if I come up with a nice way of doing something I am happy for other projects to copy it, and vice versa.)
Sounds like plural of sucking (as in they are sucking their thumbs) in vernacular Czech.
So I guess that's a no from me. :-)
So, not made on or hosted from Linux, Windows, or macOS?
I think that would clearly be OK. If I say I hand-made this birdhouse, most people would not be surprised that I used a hammer and nails that were themselves made by a machine.
This is a new English word, not a legal contract or certification.
Yeah, that makes sense. At the same time, I can't help but think the situation here is a bit different, in that we've got kernel, drivers, low-level libraries, GUI frameworks, etc, all used by or even linked into the app, making up a significant majority of most apps' executed code. I dunno, not sure it makes a philosophical difference, but maybe it makes a "feel" (or "aesthetics") difference? Which, hey, if the point is to take a moral stance, probably should be irrelevant; but I do think it might be a hinderance to the long-term success of an "abstinence-only (or at least as much as possible)" movement.
a "feel" (or "aesthetics") difference
Yep, they probably only care the feeling on themselves, and the feeling to enforce to others, not the actual facts.