Infodumping is the supplying of a large (and often excessive) amount of information, all at once. The term was first used in 1978 in the Proceedings of the Southeastcon Region 3 Conference 353. Over time, the term "infodumping" was adopted in the context of literature (particularly within fantasy and science fiction) as well as by the autistic community.
Infodumping is the supplying of a large (and often excessive) amount of information, all at once. The term was first used in 1978 in the Proceedings of the Southeastcon Region 3 Conference 353. Over time, the term "infodumping" was adopted in the context of literature (particularly within fantasy and science fiction) as well as by the autistic community.
== Infodumping in literature == In a literary context, infodumping is when an author writes execessive chunks of exposition, particularly if they are dull or irrelevant to the narrative. This can result in dry, unengaging prose. It is often discussed among science fiction and fantasy authors because both subgenres require worldbuilding, which can be challenging for authors to weave in naturally with the plot.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).