When words stop meaning what they used to. Over time, phrases get watered down, co-opted, or twisted until they lose their original punch. Think “literally,” “authentic,” or “disruption.”
by GuyWhoWritesDefinitions September 4, 2025
Get the Semantic Drift mug.The gradual loss of context in long AI conversations. The model slowly forgets earlier details, starts making stuff up, or goes completely off-topic because it has no real understanding and refuses to ask for clarification. Forces you to abandon the session and start over.
Coined November 10 2025 by developer Joshua Girod after building AI Driftmaster – an open-source tool that saves full uncompacted chat history in a database so you can reload context anytime.
Opposite of human conversation – we say "wait, what were we talking about?" AI just hallucinates forward.
Coined November 10 2025 by developer Joshua Girod after building AI Driftmaster – an open-source tool that saves full uncompacted chat history in a database so you can reload context anytime.
Opposite of human conversation – we say "wait, what were we talking about?" AI just hallucinates forward.
My Claude session had mad AI drift—started talking about cats when we were debugging code.20 messages in:
User: "Fix the login bug"
AI: "Here's a recipe for banana bread"
Classic AI drift.
User: "Fix the login bug"
AI: "Here's a recipe for banana bread"
Classic AI drift.
by nentrapper November 10, 2025
Get the AI drift mug.When someone keeps repeating a word a lot in the same small period of time.
Originates from: when girls are rejecting you and keep saying they don't want you to drift apart.
Originates from: when girls are rejecting you and keep saying they don't want you to drift apart.
Dude 1: He kept pulling a "drift apart" about his football practice
Dude 2: Yea, man! WE GET IT. STOP REPEATING.
Dude 2: Yea, man! WE GET IT. STOP REPEATING.
by Meedz ElHussiny September 28, 2012
Get the Pulling a "Drift Apart" mug.When you fill the toilet with toilet paper and then drop a deuce on top of it appears to "float like driftwood" above the water.
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Get the respect the drift mug.Smell's Drift was a key strategic outpost in the mouth-nose war used as a hospital and barracks for the small 2nd Smellogorgon Division under the command of Smeneral Nostril Nosington and was a battle that within a result had left only two smellomarines alive.
(This is a meme that me and my friends made during school, it has a very complex lore and we wrote about 3 A4 sides of paper about this war and the many ranks and divisions inside of the Smellogorgon Army, I'll be making even more of these battles if my brain has enough capicity in it..)
(This is a meme that me and my friends made during school, it has a very complex lore and we wrote about 3 A4 sides of paper about this war and the many ranks and divisions inside of the Smellogorgon Army, I'll be making even more of these battles if my brain has enough capicity in it..)
by smellogorgon October 11, 2019
Get the Smell's Drift mug.-what was the prizepool in the last season of altered entity fivem drift series?
-hmm, not sure, i think it was OATS
-hmm, not sure, i think it was OATS
by notrevochi September 11, 2020
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