Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech

Post by HumanOstrich » Thu, Aug 28, 2025, 12:28 AM UTC

jgalt212 wrote: post #12

milancurcic wrote: post #4

"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…

Fair enough, but if you know you're audience may be dismissive of your writing and its message if you use such words, it behooves one to steer clear of AI slop words. IIRC, such offenses in school writing are tagged PWC (poor word choice).

Post by tennisflyi » Thu, Aug 28, 2025, 1:07 AM UTC

al_borland wrote: post #72

Aurornis wrote: post #29

> Words including “surpass,” “boast,” “meticulous,” “strategically,” and “garner” have also seen considerable increases in usage since the release of ChatGPT. Okay everybody, add these to your list of words you can't use to avoid the trigger-happy AI accusers.

Nope. These are all useful words. Anyone who thinks AI is needed to produce something with these words is probably not worth communicating with. I use the word “meticulous” all the time, and “strategically” is an extremely common word.

Post by heelix » Thu, Aug 28, 2025, 1:47 AM UTC

milancurcic wrote: post #4

"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…

Post by thrtythreeforty » Thu, Aug 28, 2025, 2:20 AM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #103

Taek wrote: post #55

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Genuine question, do you actually use the formal emdash in your writing? AIs are very consistent about using the proper emdash—a double long dash with no spaces around it, whereas humans almost always tend to use a slang version - a single dash with spaces around it. That's because most keyboards don't have an emdash key, and few people even know how to produce an actual emdash. That's what makes it such a good givea…

> Genuine question, do you actually use the formal emdash in your writing? "the formal emdash"? > AIs are very consistent about using the proper emdash—a double long dash with no spaces around it Setting an em-dash closed is separate from whether you using an em-dash (and an em-dash is exactly what it says, a dash that is the width of the em-width of the font; "double long" is fine, I guess, if you consider the en-da…

Post by stinkbeetle » Thu, Aug 28, 2025, 2:26 AM UTC

tkgally wrote: post #117

diego_sandoval wrote: post #10

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

Fortunately, em-dash users who have been posting to HN long enough can point to evidence of our pre-ChatGPT use: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tkgally&next=3380763...