pablumese

From pablum +‎ -ese.

• IPA^(key): /ˌpæb.ləˈmiːz/

pablumese (uncountable)

1. (rare) A style of writing characterized by pablum, used for example by commercial large language models (LLMs).
   • 1990, United States House Committee on Government Operations, Employment and Housing Subcommittee, Abuses, Favoritism, and Mismanagement in HUD Programs: Hearings Before the Employment and Housing Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, page 722:

     Mr. Lantos: [...] I don't want to characterize all IG reports as putting us to sleep, but most IG reports are a combination of accountese and pablumese and, in fact, give one the impression that instead of deliberately highlighting problems, many IG reports attempt to camouflage problems, to play down problems.

   • 1992, United States House Committee on Government Operations, Taking a Byte Out of History: The Archival Preservation of Federal Computer Records : Twenty-fifth Report, page 8:

     […] reports are written in a combination of pablumese and accountese. They rely too heavily on auditor's terms which sometimes have the effect of downplaying the nature and extent of the problem.

   • 2023 March 22, Victor Mair, Language Log‎^[1]:

     [Conal Boyce responded:] "Here's one of the problems with ChatGPT and its brethren: Not only does it spew what Victor calls 'pablumese' but for technical questions it then mixes its pablumese with quantitative nonsense, creating a truly creepy kind of output."

   • (Can we date this quote?), Zhengyuan Wang [University of Pennsylvania], Pablumese: Emerging AI Writing as an Alternative Approach to Chinese Poetics

• large language model
• automation bias