The Guardian reports that 'That's so AI!' has become Gen Alpha's go-to insult for anything fake or cheap
The Guardian (corroborated by Language Log) / Hacker News (168pts, 231 comments)·low signal
Primary school children use 'That's AI' to describe knock-off goods, exaggerated claims, parental excuses and robotic-seeming people, roughly the way older kids use 'bullshit'. Language Log picked it up as 'AI is the new cringe'. For consumer AI product teams, the brand word itself is becoming a pejorative with the next cohort of users.