diff --git a/lib/std/json.zig b/lib/std/json.zig
index 23f8576805006b4a4d9dedc3d94521f750291ae6..297fc36c0fb0fe38a36127427493e0607d0dd701 100644
--- a/lib/std/json.zig
+++ b/lib/std/json.zig
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 //! JSON parsing and stringification conforming to RFC 8259. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8259
 //!
 //! The low-level `Scanner` API produces `Token`s from an input slice or successive slices of inputs,
-//! The `Reader` API connects a `std.Io.GenericReader` to a `Scanner`.
+//! The `Reader` API connects a `std.Io.Reader` to a `Scanner`.
 //!
 //! The high-level `parseFromSlice` and `parseFromTokenSource` deserialize a JSON document into a Zig type.
 //! Parse into a dynamically-typed `Value` to load any JSON value for runtime inspection.