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Re: Pseudpocalypse

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I wondered something almost the opposite the other day. With consistent interaction with chat bots and AI output, their linguistic ticks are surely bleeding into every day speech ("smoking gun" and other turns of phrase). What if our linguistic output starts to conform? > Do they, incorrectly, position their adverbial clauses? Underrated line.

Our linguistic output definitely IS conforming. It would take our individual sustained efforts not to, and even then it works be hard for is to not to… language is a meme and AI is very good at infecting us with all kinds of memes

Re: Pseudpocalypse

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This always seems theoretical. Has it happened?

Things like it have happened. The Unabomber was identified through his writing idiosyncrasies. Lots of criminals have been identified by reanalyzing old DNA samples using data and genealogical techniques that weren't possible at the time the samples were left.

Unabomber is a very specific example. He was an outspoken dude with some peculiar convictions which he liked to share with people. I don’t think it makes sense to compare him with all us normie shitposters
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