botsplaining

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English

Etymology

Patterned after mansplaining.

Noun

botsplaining (uncountable)

  1. Speech produced by software, intended to appear helpful, but often unhelpful; especially when produced by artificial intelligence (AI) software bots.
    • 2023, @wildpeaks, ycombinator:
      Google's botsplaining in the past years that kept making it increasingly harder to search for exactly what you entered was already frustrating.

Verb

botsplaining

  1. present participle and gerund of botsplain