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The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

As a person who is intrigued in linguistics, I wonder how ~~AI~~ LLMs will affect real languages. I wonder if there is any research papers on this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Not quite the same, but I'm waiting for the day when people will pronounce street names like the GPS, instead of how they are actually pronounced. The street Schoenherr, in my neck of the woods is pronounced "Shane urr (yes, like the planet Omicron Percii 8, cause Detroit (Day twah) is weird), but the GPS says "Shown her". I'm really curious to see how long it takes for the computer voice to be considered the correct one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I dunno. If people can’t be bothered to write stuff anymore, I doubt they will be bothered to read it either. Also, the model deviates towards the mean by its very design.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

If people can't be bothered to write anymore, then I will be very picky about what I read. I will probably do more research and make sure it is someone I trust to have written it themselves not relied on trash machines.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I've been picky about what I read ever since human written slop seemed to peak in the late 2010's, articles written by humans to appeal to search engines are almost just as worthless as AI slop.

This volume of garbage is certainly much more concerning, though.