You're totally correct! People really start talking like ChatGPT. Here's an explanation why...

I haven't noticed this yet fortunately. Anyone?

There's so very much in that paper that doesn't seem to suggest what they are saying it does. It suggests people are directly using those tools to create scripts for academic videos instead of their fundamental speech changing. They state that they manually reviewed for "reading vs spontaneous" and found about 30 percent were directly reading a script, but extrapolating the non "reading" samples to not have used AI copy edited outlines in this context is a leap. It would make more sense that they did. These lecture videos were not examples of natural language use in any sense.

Our study is focused on academic communication, yet we anticipate that similar patterns may extend to other communicative contexts.

Seems particularly unfounded (though it really has enough hedges to make it a non statement "similar" "may" with no reference to what context they're thinking of). It's also a preprint that gets most of its models from preprints.

Then the vice article takes every weakness of the paper and actually amplifies them to a really profound degree. We've got researchers trying to push an AI is transformative narrative and a journalist trying to push an AI makes you stupid narrative right off a cliff into "popsci journalists reporting on preprints make stupid claims" pit.

Got it, we need to rename Gen Alpha to Gen NPC.

A year after Elon bought Twitter there was a study done that found out roughly half of all Twitter users are fake.

Most reddit users are fake now.

The spam from AI bots are draining more electricity than cities, it is quickly becoming the majority of global power usage.

These datacenters need to be burned down.

I probably would be among the last to notice, as I have never used this.

Literally don't talk to enough people to notice. 🤷🏿‍♀️

"You can totally trust things that sound like they're AI generated, that's just how people talk now! Trust us!"

Was this funded by ChatGPT?

Joke's on them, I already talked like that 😆

The words they studied were, delve, realm, meticulous and adept.

It's just a case of art imitating life imitating art imitating life imitating art imitating life. What's so hard to understand about that?

I don’t touch the AIs so I don’t know what that means.

It’s really sad cause I’m big into tech and gadgets but AI is just garbage.

I think i've seen more people use "-" in emails and what have you more within the past year than ever before and it makes me wonder "did they use chatgpt to write this?"

or I've had project managers on jobs I'm consulting for use "final thoughts:" in docs/emails and I know for a fact they didn't write it. When you use AI pretty much daily for your job like I do you can spot people using it from a mile away. Blog posts, game/movie/book reviews, proposals, emails, etc everyone is using it. Hell you can spot it here on Lemmy and on Reddit very easily. it's harder to find actual real person written content these days then AI content.

and if they use EM Dashes? 100% it's AI.

I was admittedly pulled in by the clickbait title but then saw that it's a Vice article and realized that reading this crap would be pointless as it will all be absolute bullshit.