Are You a ‘Meat Proxy’? The Rise of Copy-Pasting AI Responses Without Thinking
It’s increasingly common: You ask a co-worker, associate or buddy a complex question, and they copy and paste an AI-generated response from a chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude, without adding any human input. The internet world now has a name for that sort of person: meat proxy.
The term “meat proxy” seems to have originated in a brief Aug. 3 blog post by developer Niklas Guhn, who complained that he was receiving responses on Slack and other work channels as verbatim output from AI chatbots.
“This is not adding value,” he wrote. “I can talk to Claude myself. It’s going to be faster and I get to control the context. I don’t need a meat proxy in between.”
Social media immediately seized the phrase, with one viral X post declaring, “Babe, wake up, new term just dropped.”
The masses broadened the definition to mean, “A person who forwards...
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