uninformation

We call it uninformation and it covers a large and specific area in the work we do: they tell us as much as we need to know so that we can operate efficiently, and nothing more.

The Sinkiang Executive Hall, Adam 1978

I say uninformation against the backdrop of Bateson’s tongue-in-cheek definition of information as ‘a difference that makes a difference’.

Large language models and the unstoppable tide of uninformation – The Ideophone Name * 2025