Indeed, the word has become nearly meaningless, but it doesn't seem to be rampantly overused on HN. Looking at titles, it only appeared 3 times in the last week

Indeed, the word has become nearly meaningless, but it doesn't seem to be rampantly overused on HN. Looking at titles, it only appeared 3 times in the last week on stories with any upvotes [0]: AI Company Accused of Using Humans to Fake Its AI AI Looking to Become Robot Mayor in Tokyo’s Tama City AI Predicts Obesity Prevalence from Space The 3rd one is the sort of nonsense I think you're complaining about. The first 2 are stories about AI as a business or cultural phenomenon, for which "AI" is the right term. So if we only have 1 story per week that uses it in a non-self-referential way, we can leave the pitchforks in the barn. [0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=AI&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=pastWeek&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=AI&sort=byPopularity&prefix&pa...