How the fuck is AI person of the year?
Technically they gave it to “The architects of AI”
And also worth knowing Time person of the year isn’t necessarily someone who did something good, just who they deem to have had the biggest impact
Hitler got it once I believe
And while AI in various forms has been building up for a few years, 2025 was definitely when it became a thing. It parallels “(AI) slop” being voted word of the year. Which is a fascinating bending of the word, as the sloppiness of AI in writing and particularly images was obvious slop when it first began, but now can be far too convincing in short bursts now. It’s also been broadened to mean “I don’t believe, like, and/or care about this” as a short drive-by comment, even on real things.
I mean they gave it to me a few years ago and I sure didn’t deserve it.
Stealing my tacos was a big deal back then
Me too
It’s not AI though. It’s the architects of it.
It’s also not a good person contest and is solely based on prominence.
After Hitler, Stalin, Nixon and Trump: let’s take the meaninglessness of this reward to its logical conclusion.
Technically it’s not meant to be a positive thing - just a neutral acknowledgement of a topic’s media dominance for that year, but yeah, The phrase “X of the year” is so universally understood to be positive that even with the reminder that it’s not an award, it still feels like an award.
