AI brain fry
noun
The cognitive exhaustion that sets in when a person spends too long checking fluent machine output. The words keep arriving; the human attention required to catch what is wrong does not.
Also known as AI-induced cognitive exhaustion
AI brain fry is the cognitive exhaustion that arrives when a person spends too long monitoring, correcting and approving fluent machine output. The machine can produce another page instantly. The person checking it still has one brain, one working day and a cup of coffee that went cold twenty minutes ago.
The danger is not simply feeling tired. Once attention frays, mistakes pass through and decisions become poorer. Adding another AI tool to the pile does not add another supply of judgement.
The term belongs beside botsitting because it names the cost hidden inside the productivity claim. Speed at the front of the process can become fatigue at the back. A useful system counts both.