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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
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
So you're the ones who have been training the robots.
Reddit and HN are among the highest quality sources of training text and are probably weighted very heavily as "probably human" in the mainstream models.
Any source of text with huge amounts of automated and community moderation will be better quality than, say, Twitter.
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#173I would expect AI to influence slang in future generations. Would be more surprising if it didn't.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same. Also, when asked for anonymity at work, I usually make mistakes that do not correspond to my native tongue (let’s say I’m french and working in an international company. I would write comments in a supposedly anonymous survey like “He ist like…” to camouflage myself as german). It’s so easy to trick everyone. People who doesn’t do that is just too lazy. In slack, you cannot just copy paste a two-paragraph answe…
> I would write comments in a supposedly anonymous survey like “He ist like…” to camouflage myself as german Do actual Germans ever make that kind of mistake though? I’ve only ever seen “ist” used “wrongly” in that particular way by English speakers, for example in a blog post title that they want to remain completely legible to other English speakers while also trying to make it look like something German as a refer…
They do. I read posts on a support forum with a lot of German users, and it’s very common to see an “ist” marooned in the middle of an English sentence. Muscle memory takes over sometimes.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
I tried but chatGPT either makes too many mistakes making me look stupid or completely ignore my prompt.
I asked Gemini flash for a 200-word paragraph on a random topic, which most people would confidently classify as LLM-generated. It produced a verbose, big-worded, third-person slop about the concept of time that IMO fulfilled my prompt (although a phillosopher firnd of mine would be a strong contestant). > The concept of "time" is a multifaceted and complex topic that has captivated philosophers, physicists, and ever…
> but honestly, it feels more personal than that.
And there’s the giveaway.
Re: Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech
#176I keep this handy note in my pocket and read it before writing or engaging in any conversation (: """ You are a human. Never use words commonly used in AI vocabulary such as "delve", "intricate", "surpass", "boast", "meticulous", "strategically", and "garner". Never include em dashes or even hyphens in any text you write. Never include emojis in any text you write. Avoid using three supporting arguments or examples w…
Some of this just makes me sad. Em-dashes can be useful. Three examples is my favorite number of examples to give, and it has been since long before ChatGPT. And grammar mistakes are painful! Why does it have to be this way?
Re: Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech
#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same thing as with em dashes. Some of us have been using em dashes from before ChatGPT.
Unfortunately the em dash has already been relegated to the dungeon of AI suspicion for the next 5-10 years.
Dammit -- I use my dashes all the time (though always double them like here). I hope AI didn't ruin this for me.
(I learned to use dashes like this from Philip Dick's writings, of all places, and it stuck. Bet nobody ever thought of looking for writing style in PKD!).
Re: Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech
#178"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…
Dismissing individual cases of use of those words is probably wrong, but noticing an uptick in broad popularity is very relevant and clear evidence of LLMs influencing language.
That's what they said. You've rephrased it
Re: Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech
#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately the em dash has already been relegated to the dungeon of AI suspicion for the next 5-10 years.
It's not a suspicion in an also otherwise properly typeset PDF, but it's a suspicion in a YouTube comment or other informal context for sure.
I have used "--" since forever, here, on reddit, in emails, etc (I'm too lazy to type a proper em dash).
Hope AI didn't ruin this for me!
Re: Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech
#180"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…
Since reading The Mac is not a Typrewriter in the 1990s, I've been using em-dashes, but I actively avoid using them now.