"Poast-training": The Joke Term for Timelines Retraining Users' Brains With AI Slop
wavefnx · x · 2026-09-18
A new coined term, poast-training: the user's linguistic convergence and internalisation via the timeline—the process by which exposure to local bias and slop-imbalanced feeds from reward-hacked models gradually alters users' opinions and morals. After post-training the models, it's now the users being trained.
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