[gfd]

Was this term coined on HN? I remember first seeing it (used in an AI context) from this 2019 comment under "Cool stuff that's still completely unregulated": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21167689

Most of the predictions in that first comment came true.

[lachlan_gray]

William Gibson mentions data laundering as an illicit activity in the Neuromancer books! It’s plausible that the phrase itself was coined there