Well—that is certainly a meticulous observation! 🔍
So perversely chatbots are increasing people’s vocabulary because people read so few books anymore and most of their word usage comes from what they read online?
That’s kinda how I took it. Be funny if language evolved back into flowery Victorian speech.
It’s not flowery though, just bland.
You are absolutely right!
I am horribly mistaken! :)
I have all these odd pauses in my speech and just realized they’re em dashes.
I’m one of those deranged few who actually used em dashes in my normal typing habits. Not super often the way LLMs are prone to, maybe once a month tops. Alt+0151 or Compose, dash, dash, dash.
Now a find myself reluctant to use what I felt was a useful bit of punctuation out of concern people might think what I’m typing was LLM generated. It sucks.
People have been speaking with punctuation since language was invented. If you only now realize that pause is an em-dash, that’s on your schooling. :-p
I always liked the dramatic…
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I’ve never used em-dashes to represent them. Am I doing it wrong?
Pauses are much better than filler words.
Your brain runs on ChatGPT now. Better start eating a diet of NVidia GPUs.
If a development leads to the downfall of r/AmITheAsshole, I’m all for it.
If you read the actual article there’s barely any evidence that any of what they are claiming is even remotely true. They talk about vague connections through certain words being used on YouTube that are, in their own words, inconclusive. And a bunch of anecdotal instances on reddit in which mods use “vibes” to detect AI slop comments and posts. And then finish with more anecdotes about some real world encounters that they think are written by AI.
I mean, no doubt that AI garbage is filtering into online discourse because let’s face it, people are lazy assholes who want easy karma and updoots. But this is hardly evidence that actual conversational language is being altered by AI.
What logically follows is that I need to be as weird and eccentric as possible in order to counteract the memetic contagion of a lovecraftian averaging machine. I bet I could make a cult out of this!
Summon the thorn character guy
It’s a catch-22 - try to be more unique, in an effort not to lose your humanity, but in doing so keep feeding the machine which subsists on creativity. A human-AI ouroboros.
AI is writing about itself.
No it isn’t, shut the fuck up
“You know the saying, ‘Human see, human do.’” - Julius, Planet of the Apes
Hahaha, now even the source of new data is starting to be poisoned by LLMs…good luck trying to outproduce LLM slop to train LLMs…and ending up with goop real fast.
And I kid you not, AI likes to use “and I kid you not” a lot!
It won’t be long before the keyboard itself is minimized for online communication. Models will be personalized for you in the sense that your text messages, emails, etc can all be generated. Then you just have to select the one you want to use. Kind of like auto-completion now taken to the next level with “AI”.
Doubtful since I’ve yet to use one, but whatever.
