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Researchers found that the more people use AI, the more they begin to use its favorite words when they speak...

Archived version: https://archive.ph/y13Ig

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[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 5 points 19 hours ago

From out of nowhere the researched made the uncanny observation. Nothing would ever be the same ever.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds a bit like business speak to me, was one source of training data corporate emails?

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Personally, I think training an LLM on LinkedIn and Reddit is great, it's hard to think of a worse way to train your AI. Apart from that one guy who trained one on 4chan posts only.

God forbid it actually sounds like a human.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago

Fair point. I remember seeing some tweet or similar with said something in the vein of: "ChatGPT sounds like a middle manager on LinkedIn. No wonder, middle managers think that ChatGPT is intelligent."

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago
[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know people tend to copy some of the language around them. I did not expect tech ceo's to be so far up their own *** that they'd push their ai slop enough to measurably affect language in society

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For a lot of people, the promise is not needing to do your job well if a program can do it for you.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 18 hours ago

Doing a socialism trough capitalism somehow?

[–] grue@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So... people's vocabulary is getting improved?

Of all the criticism of generative AI (and don't get me wrong: I agree with most of it), this is the least compelling, IMO.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

AI writing is needlessly verbose, often repeats itself, and badly structured.