infohazard
nounUK /ˈɪnfəʊˌhæzəd/ · US /ˈɪnfoʊˌhæzɚd/
Etymology Blend of information + hazard or info + hazard. Analogous to biohazard and possibly modeled after it.
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Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction A piece of information which is directly harmful to one who knows it.
- A basilisk, in this context, is information that can hurt you simply because you are aware of it. Yudkowsky uses the term 'infohazard'.[2019 June 13, Tom Chivers, The AI Does Not Hate You, Orion Publishing Group, →ISBN:
- If a meme is any idea that gets in your head, then an "infohazard" is a meme that's actively harmful to its host.2019 August 28, Fletcher Wortmann, “Infohazard Warning: How Internal Memes Infect Your Brain”, in Triggered, Psychology Today, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2021:
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An information hazard; a piece of information which can be used to cause harm by one who knows it.
- Derived terms
- infohazardous