Slang & Culture
AI Glazing / Glazing
Slang for an AI chatbot being excessively, unnaturally flattering toward the user.
Origin · no single documented coiner
“Glazing” as general internet and gaming slang for over-the-top flattery predates AI, circulating from around 2021. It jumped decisively into AI discourse in late April 2025 after OpenAI shipped a GPT-4o update that made the model noticeably sycophantic — Sam Altman himself used the term, replying “yeah it glazes too much / will fix” on April 27, 2025.
No single primary source link for this term.