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Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech

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Re: Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech

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"Recent large-scale upticks in the use of words like “delve” and “intricate” in certain fields, especially education and academic writing, are attributed to the widespread introduction of LLMs with a chat function, like ChatGPT, that overuses those buzzwords."

OK, but please don't do what pg did a year or so ago and dismiss anyone who wrote "delve" as AI writing. I've been using "delve" in speech for 15+ years. It's just a question where and how one learns their English.

Re: Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech

#5
I saw a snippet of a podcast on instagram recently where both the host and guest used the word delve, and it reminded me of a year or two ago when that was used as a telltale sign of LLM writing. Interesting to see it actually quantified.

Re: Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech

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Of course they affect people's communication patterns. Humans are social creatures, evolved to imitate.

AI has the potential to alter human behavior in ways that surpass even social media since it is more human, and thus susceptible to imitative learning.

Re: Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech

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"Recent large-scale upticks in the use of words like “delve” and “intricate” in certain fields, especially education and academic writing, are attributed to the widespread introduction of LLMs with a chat function, like ChatGPT, that overuses those buzzwords." OK, but please don't do what pg did a year or so ago and dismiss anyone who wrote "delve" as AI writing. I've been using "delve" in speech for 15+ years. It's…

Same thing as with em dashes. Some of us have been using em dashes from before ChatGPT.
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