"Whatever your creative discipline, you need to communicate effectively with your colleagues, collaborators, clients and bosses. And part of that is keeping up with the constant barrage of new words and phrases that society keeps throwing up. You don't necessarily need to use them, but you do need to know their meaning. Not staying on top of Gen Alpha slang, for instance, would be delulu, no cap."
"And if you haven't yet heard these words and phrases being used in meetings, Zoom calls and WhatsApp groups, you soon will. Hate AI? I get it. But learning this vocabulary isn't just about keeping up with trends; it's about maintaining your voice in conversations where AI's role in creative work is being decided. The more fluently you can talk about these concepts, the better positioned you'll be to shape how they're used, rather than just having them imposed on you."
"Clanker started life in the Star Wars films as a dismissive word for battle droids. But it's recently become the go-to derogatory term for AI systems that people are fed up with. You'll hear it, for example, when people ring customer service and get trapped in chatbot hell, or try to do something urgent online and keep hitting automated responses."
Effective communication across creative disciplines requires familiarity with emerging slang and terminology so colleagues, clients, collaborators and bosses can be understood. Society continually generates new words, and the AI revolution is spawning its own specialized vocabulary that will appear in meetings, calls and group chats. Learning AI-related terms enables professionals to participate in decisions about how AI is used in creative work and to influence outcomes. Fluency in this vocabulary helps maintain individual voice and agency when AI practices and tools are adopted. The guide provides friendly, plain-speaking definitions and examples of new terms, beginning with 'Clanker' and 'Necromarketing'.
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