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The word I have for this is “commitment laundering”. People pass around AI artifacts that nobody has necessarily read or considered, and the invented assumptions and tagalong commitments just keep piling up. They look like they’ve got real provenance but nobody can say what is being done or why.

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Right up there with responsibility/culpability/liability laundering. These are things being shrugged off and externalized.

And the complement is credit/provenance laundering. These are things being misappropriated.

The grift often does both of these with the same sleight of hand, and this is what gets accelerated with the new tools and cavalier culture around everything.

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