botshit noun: hallucinated chatbot content that is uncritically used by a human for communication and decision-making tasks. “The company withdrew the whitepaper due to excessive botshit, after the authors relied on unverified machine-generated research summaries.”
From this academic paper on managing the risks of using generated content to perform tasks:
Generative chatbots do this work by ‘predicting’ responses rather than ‘knowing’ the meaning of their responses. This means chatbots can produce coherent sounding but inaccurate or fabricated content, referred to as ‘hallucinations’. When humans use this untruthful content for tasks, it becomes what we call ‘botshit’.
See also: slop.
