botsplaining

English

Etymology

Patterned after mansplaining.

Noun

botsplaining (uncountable)

1. Speech produced by software, intended to appear helpful, but often unhelpful; especially when produced by artificial intelligence (AI) software bots.
   • 2023, @wildpeaks, ycombinator‎^[1]:

     Google's botsplaining in the past years that kept making it increasingly harder to search for exactly what you entered was already frustrating.

Verb

botsplaining

1. present participle and gerund of botsplain