autonowashing

noun

Etymology

From autonomous + -wash + -ing.

Definitions

  1. The practice of making unverified or misleading claims which misrepresent the appropriate…

    The practice of making unverified or misleading claims which misrepresent the appropriate level of human supervision required by a partially or semi-autonomous product, service, or technology.

    • As companies dig deep into their marketing of ADAS features, some names go too far to indicate more autonomy than what's possible. The name for this phenomenon? Autonowashing.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for autonowashing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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