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meat proxy
also AI meat proxy or human proxy for AI
Definition of meat proxy
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: a disparaging term for a person who forwards AI-generated material without first reading, understanding, checking, or improving it
- The manager became a meat proxy when he pasted the chatbot's analysis into the team channel without checking its invented figures.
- Using an assistant to draft the memo was not the problem; acting as a meat proxy and passing every claim downstream was.
Two meanings, one word
In everyday English
A person used as an intermediary who merely relays information or instructions for someone or something else.
In AI
A disparaging term for a person who forwards AI-generated material without first reading, understanding, checking, or improving it.
Origin & history
The expression spread through developer and workplace discussions in 2026 and is widely associated with software developer Niklas Gruhn's essay Don't Be a Meat Proxy. Reporting by technology publications and its inclusion in lists of emerging AI workplace vocabulary helped popularize it beyond programming circles.
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"Meat proxy." AI Dictionary, Dadgogo, https://dadgogo.com/dictionary/meat-proxy/. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.