# Vernacular Web
> Artificial intelligence is changing how people write, create, communicate and imagine relationships, bringing new meanings to familiar words and new vocabulary into everyday conversation.

## Entries
- [Hallucination: From a Medical Term to an Everyday AI Complaint](https://vernacular-web.pages.dev/hallucination-ai-meaning-history/): An AI hallucination is an output that presents invented, inaccurate or unsupported information as though it were reliable.
- [Prompt: How a Theatre Cue Became a Software Instruction](https://vernacular-web.pages.dev/prompt-word-history-theatre-software/): Prompt began with the idea of bringing something forward or making someone ready to act.
- [Fan-Fiction and AI: The Community Language of Character Writing](https://vernacular-web.pages.dev/fanfiction-ai-community-dialect/): Fan-fiction writers working with AI tools combine established fandom vocabulary with terminology from roleplay, software interfaces and generative AI.
- [Assistant or Bot? How Companies and Users Frame AI Differently](https://vernacular-web.pages.dev/assistant-bot-language-framing/): Companies tend to call AI products assistants because the word suggests usefulness, cooperation and a defined role.
- [AI-Generated vs AI-Assisted: A Practical Guide for Editors](https://vernacular-web.pages.dev/ai-generated-vs-ai-assisted-editors/): AI-generated describes content substantially produced by an AI system, while AI-assisted describes human work in which AI contributes to a particular stage or.
- [Companion, Character, Persona and Parasocial: Four Ways to Describe AI Characters](https://vernacular-web.pages.dev/ai-companion-character-persona-parasocial/): Companion, character, persona and parasocial describe four different dimensions of AI-character interaction.

## About
- [About Vernacular Web](https://vernacular-web.pages.dev/about/): what the site covers and how entries are made

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