{"id":"ai-hype-cycle-meme","name":"AI Hype Cycle Meme","summary":"The AI Hype Cycle Meme is a family of internet jokes that mock the recurring pattern of inflated expectations around artificial intelligence, followed by inevitable disappointment. Drawing on the real historical pattern of AI booms and busts dating back to the 1950s[1], these memes surged in popularity during the generative AI explosion of 2022-2023. The format typically contrasts wild AI promises with underwhelming results, or compares current AI hype to previous cycles that ended in so-called \"AI winters.\"","tags":["ai-hype-cycle-meme","AI Hype Cycle Meme meme"],"howToUse":["**Historical comparison format:** Place a bold AI prediction from the 1960s-1980s next to a nearly identical prediction from the 2020s. The joke writes itself.","**Gartner Curve edit:** Take the classic hype cycle graph and label each phase with current AI products or companies. The \"Trough of Disillusionment\" label typically gets the biggest laugh.","**Promise vs. reality:** Use any two-panel or comparison template (Drake, expectation vs. reality, Virgin vs. Chad) to contrast what AI companies say their product does versus what it actually does.","**\"AI will replace X\" format:** List a job or creative field, add a confident AI prediction, then show the actual AI output failing at that task.","**AI winter countdown:** Reference the historical pattern of AI busts[1] and add a caption like \"loading...\" or \"any day now\" under the current hype cycle."],"imageCount":1,"nsfw":false,"images":[{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/ai-hype-cycle-meme/ai-hype-cycle-gartner-curve.webp","caption":"Gartner Hype Cycle diagram with WE ARE HERE marker at the peak of inflated expectations","width":1024,"height":576,"nsfw":false}],"historyUrl":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/ai-hype-cycle-meme/history.md","related":["literal-me","skibbidi-sigma","suspect-caught-on-camera","ai-slop","aura-points","brain-rot-vocabulary","brain-rot","low-taper-fade","the-singularity"],"popularityRank":3237,"license":"Meme images and history: templates, screenshots, photos and fan edits, many of copyrighted material or real people. Explicit and offensive memes and images are included and flagged nsfw. Check you have the right to use an image before publishing."}