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AI may be making us think and write more alike
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#112A really aggravating thing about seeing so much AI-generated text around is that it makes me constantly second-guess my own writing. Does that sentence sound natural? Am I veering into ChatGPT territory? God forbid I use an em-dash. And how much of the perception of it "feeling" like AI text is real vs. paranoia?
It's incredibly frustrating, but maybe a silver lining is that it will help me write more authentically, I don't know.
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#113While I cringe at most LLM speak, I have learned quite a bit from it. Certain terminology and some gaps in my entirely self-learned English. I appreciate that. It helped me better express myself at work and use less words (but hopefully more substantive ones).
But yeah, their general tone is very... castrated. Safe. Hugely impersonal.
I have learned to quickly edit out their suggested comments when I ask for an advice.
To me they have been a positive -- after careful curation.
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#115"say that AI developers should incorporate more real-world diversity into large language model (LLM) training sets,"
Are you kidding me?
How much more "real-world diversity" could they possibly incorporate into the models than the entire freaking Internet and also every scrap of text written on paper the AI companies could get a hold of?
How on Earth could someone think that AIs speak like this because their training set is full of LLM-speak? This is transparently obviously false.
This is the sort of massive, blinding error that calls everything else written in the article into question. Whatever their mental model of AI is it has no resemblance to reality.
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#116"say that AI developers should incorporate more real-world diversity into large language model (LLM) training sets," Are you kidding me? How much more "real-world diversity" could they possibly incorporate into the models than the entire freaking Internet and also every scrap of text written on paper the AI companies could get a hold of ? How on Earth could someone think that AIs speak like this because their trainin…
The problem isn't the diversity in the training set - the problem is that the method by design picks the average.
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#118Take a community with AI moderation like Reddit, I've been a participant for years. With the recent push to AI autocorrect and moderation, you can see the changes in language. New words, new ways of speaking, unconsciously editing yourself because you don't want to draw the eye of the bot. It doesn't feel subtle. It feels Orwellian.
It's particularly egregious on youtube, where people frequently use words like "unalived" or "self-deleted" instead of murder or suicide, lest they incur the wrath of the almighty algorithm.
That seems to me to be an example where the language is forced to change but the thoughts remain the same. Sure, people are using the "safe" terms, but they're using them to continue to subvert the rules, not to bow to them.
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#119So too did the printing press. Again, this is not a "something similar has happened in the past, therefore this is nothing new" sort of comment. This is quite new, however this outcome was totally unavoidable -- once methods of communication become widespread and centralized it is impossible for them not to impact language and thought.
how exactly the printing press did that?
It's actually an interesting topic, the printing press fostered a great normalization of the English language that was not previously present.
https://academic.oup.com/book/41217/chapter-abstract/3506879...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_refo...
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