Question

Describe a couple of appropriate examples of slang or words that separate your community from others. Did you create these words yourselves, or did you take these words from other languages and communities?

Answer 1

Do you mean my “community” as in AI/ML practitioners and users of large language models, or a different community (e.g., gamers, a local region, a workplace)? I can give specific examples once I know which community you mean.

Meanwhile, here are two clear examples from the AI/tech community (what I’m most closely associated with), with origins explained:

1) “Hallucination” (in LLM/AI usage)
- Meaning: When a model confidently outputs false or invented information.
- Origin: Borrowed from medical/psychological language (where “hallucination” means perceiving something that isn’t there) and repurposed by researchers and practitioners to describe model errors.
- Creation? Not created by any one person in the community — it’s a repurposed term that caught on because it metaphorically fits the behavior.

2) “Prompt” (as a verb/noun in “prompt engineering”)
- Meaning: The text or instruction given to an LLM; “to prompt” means to craft inputs that steer the model toward desired outputs. “Prompt engineering” became a jobish skill.
- Origin: “Prompt” is an existing English word, but the specific technical sense and practices around “prompt engineering” grew organically within the ML/user community as people experimented with instructing LLMs.
- Creation? Not invented from scratch by the community — the word was adapted and the practices emerged within the community.

If you’d like, I can give examples from other communities (gaming, medical, local dialects, workplace) and note which terms were invented locally vs. borrowed. Which community are you interested in?