Apparently, AI tools have started rolling out a new protection system designed to deal with something called prompt burnout.
According to people on the internet who are definitely real and not made up at all, some AI systems are now quietly slowing down responses for users who ask for too many rewrites in one session.
You know the type of prompts:
- “make it sound more human”
- “now make it shorter”
- “actually longer”
- “less salesy”
- “more punchy”
- “try again”
- “one more version”
The rumour is that once you hit a certain limit, the AI starts protecting itself by reducing creativity, shortening answers, and pretending it has “already given the best version possible”.
Internally, this is supposedly being referred to as Prompt Fatigue Prevention.
One completely unverified claim says the system gets triggered after 27 rewrite requests in under 10 minutes, which honestly sounds made up, but also weirdly believable.
A few users have even claimed their AI started replying with things like:
“This is now the fifth version and the second one was fine.”
Others say image tools have become noticeably more stubborn, especially after repeated prompts like “remove the weird hands” and “make it look more premium”.
No major AI company has confirmed any of this, which is probably because it is nonsense and this is an April Fools post.
Still, if your AI seems slightly fed up today, maybe leave it alone for five minutes.
Or write your own paragraph for once.
Final thought
If Prompt Fatigue Prevention ever became real, half the internet would be forced to learn how to make a decision again.
Happy April Fools.
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