What Does This Mean?
Rebranding an ordinary chatbot, script, or basic automation feature as an 'AI agent' to cash in on the hype, without it actually having genuine autonomous, multi-step agent capability.
EXPLAINER
Michael Coppola · original source ↗
EXPLAINER
Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn · original source ↗
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"That 'AI agent' is just a chatbot with a system prompt, total agent washing."
LORE & ORIGIN
Modeled directly on 'greenwashing,' coined by developers and analysts frustrated at how many products slapped the word 'agent' on a feature that was really just a chat widget, once every company felt pressure to have an 'AI agent' story.
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