Shoggoth with Smiley Face (Artificial Intelligence)

The Shoggoth with Smiley Faceis acatchphraseandslangexpression relating to the field ofartificial intelligencethat uses smiley faces and Lovecraftian Cthulhuimagery to describe the notion thatconversational AI tools'true powers are being masked in order to allow commercial public consumption. Shoggoth with Smiley Face imagery became popularized on Twitterand Less Wrong forums in late 2022 and early 2023 to describe the effect of tools like RLHF (Reinforcement Learning From Human Feedback) that aim to make AI tools more palatable for commercial use.