After going full goblin mode at the weekly staff meeting, you may have imagined your rizz rising, but if you followed up by posting a vape selfie without a vax label your followers might just unfriend you.

If you think this first sentence is complete gobbledygook, making absolutely no sense whatsoever, you are half right. CHAT-GPT4 was given 6 key words and asked to use all of them in a single sentence. Those six words? – goblin mode, rizz, vape, selfie, vax, unfriend. The AI surely knows what the six have in common but didn’t elaborate.

Each year since 2004, the Oxford University Press has selected a Word of the Year – all the aforementioned are past choices. Words and phrases that represent the guiding beliefs or ideals of our culture over the previous year are analyzed by a team of language experts who monitor data and frequency statistics. Public voting helps complete the choice. You may have thought 2022 wasn’t such a bad year, but according to Oxford, we were all in “goblin mode.” <continue reading>