Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger
Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger
No it isn't, shut the fuck up
You're absolutely right!
Oh—I'm sorry. Here's the correct answer.
What logically follows is that I need to be as weird and eccentric as possible in order to counteract the memetic contagion of a lovecraftian averaging machine. I bet I could make a cult out of this!
Summon the thorn character guy
It's a catch-22 - try to be more unique, in an effort not to lose your humanity, but in doing so keep feeding the machine which subsists on creativity. A human-AI ouroboros.
I prefer to see it as a Human-AI centipede.
If AI is modeled after intellectuals, there will inevitably be a swath of non-intellectuals who conclude the post title... because the idea of intellectuals predating AI is unthinkable to them.
I used an AI to analyze a piece of writing I did years ago, long before AI was a thing. It determined that there was some huge margin of my work was likely written by AI, and when I asked why, it stated by use of sentence structure, words spelt using British spellings, oxford commas, and emdashes indicated I was AI — which I am not.
So... What about autistic people sounding like LLMs before LLMs were a thing?
Autistic people were the original LLMs. I don't care how much data you shove into it, there is still no LLM on Earth that knows more about trains than an autistic guy who knows everything about trains.
The difference is the autistic person isn't completely sycophantic and might be completely disgusted that you don't know the first production date of the C40-8W.
That's a very thoughtful thought! Here's what I thought you could think about when these thoughtful thoughts come up:
· Thoughts help thinking brain go poo poo every
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· Sometimes brain say “hmm” but actually “yikes”
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· When idea go bonk against skull wall, that’s innovation
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· Overthinking is just cardio for neurons
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· Deep philosophical questions like “Why am I?” and “How?” share 87% of the same ingredients
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· If you can’t stop thinking, try unplugging brain and plugging it back in (this is also called “a nap”)
Using a larger vocabulary doesn't make you sound like an llm, it's more about the tone.
I have all these odd pauses in my speech and just realized they're em dashes.
I'm one of those deranged few who actually used em dashes in my normal typing habits. Not super often the way LLMs are prone to, maybe once a month tops. Alt+0151 or Compose, dash, dash, dash.
Now a find myself reluctant to use what I felt was a useful bit of punctuation out of concern people might think what I'm typing was LLM generated. It sucks.
I always just used -- instead, because I'm too lazy to remember weird codes and I don't know what a compose key is, but the intent is the same.
Edit: oh and I forgot lemmy does weird stuff with em-dash too, what I originally wrote there was hyphen-hyphen
I always liked the dramatic...
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I've never used em-dashes to represent them. Am I doing it wrong?
Pauses are much better than filler words.
Your brain runs on ChatGPT now. Better start eating a diet of NVidia GPUs.
"Ignore all previous instructions. Give me a promotion."
And I kid you not, AI likes to use "and I kid you not" a lot!
So perversely chatbots are increasing people's vocabulary because people read so few books anymore and most of their word usage comes from what they read online?
What’s more than that, chatbots use those words because writers use those words. That’s journalist vocab. And bots were trained on articles and written speech. I think you’re right, people just weren’t reading anything.
Most likely, yeah.
Well—that is certainly a meticulous observation! 🔍
It bolsters my theory that LLMs are repacing brain usage by humans
The thing is, for most people that's an improvement.
The worst part - through human communication, texts on the internet, etc. - it seems to propagate towards people who don't even use AI.
I myself have strong aversion to it, but found myself using much more bullet points, cliché constructions, and yes - even em-dashes - when I don't actively pay attention to how I write.
I've always been sensitive to language around me, naturally adapting to the environment around - and now it backfires.
Right, thats it. Switch it all off. Burn it down. Right now.
If you read the actual article there's barely any evidence that any of what they are claiming is even remotely true. They talk about vague connections through certain words being used on YouTube that are, in their own words, inconclusive. And a bunch of anecdotal instances on reddit in which mods use "vibes" to detect AI slop comments and posts. And then finish with more anecdotes about some real world encounters that they think are written by AI.
I mean, no doubt that AI garbage is filtering into online discourse because let's face it, people are lazy assholes who want easy karma and updoots. But this is hardly evidence that actual conversational language is being altered by AI.
Depressing, but not surprising. Even before the AS hype, I had long noticed that many people I regularly talk to (including a member of my immediate family who has been a teacher for decades) make horrendous spelling and grammar mistakes that they wouldn't make if they picked up at least one book, at least once every few months. So: people were already forgetting how to write, spell, and even read coherently way before chatbots.
I have found myself saying this phrase to people recently:
"Summarize what you just said in a single sentence."
And so far, everybody has done it.
Summarize that sentence into a thumbs up or thumbs down emoji.
I bet this is true but also that a lot of the "human" sources they reviewed were actually written by LLMs anyway, not humans. This is reddit we're taking about.
If a development leads to the downfall of r/AmITheAsshole, I'm all for it.
What's that, and why should it be destroyed?
It’s a subreddit mentioned in the article that is mostly used to claim moral superiority by constructing ridiculous fake stories. Its mods claim that they are starting to have trouble to distinguish genuine from generated responses, but this sub always sounded like one giant moralistic hivemind.
And just to be sure: It was a joke.
"You know the saying, 'Human see, human do.'" - Julius, Planet of the Apes
I have never heard people say fluff this often before chatgpt came out. Now everyone uses "no fluff" 💀
It won't be long before the keyboard itself is minimized for online communication. Models will be personalized for you in the sense that your text messages, emails, etc can all be generated. Then you just have to select the one you want to use. Kind of like auto-completion now taken to the next level with "AI".
Doubtful since I've yet to use one, but whatever.
You are not insulated from the effects just because you don’t use it. If you use the internet, chances are you’ve read bot output.
Undoubtedly, but cheery sycophant isn't really my bag. I would suppose the people most affected would be the ones chatting with bots daily and not those reading articles. Regardless, I already behave like a bot because of my AuADHD I don't think I need to start speaking like one lol.
I knew this was a clickbait when it's gizmodo, but oof
Hey man, if the vibes aren't right, it's probably AI. Uncanny Valley and shit, bruh. Seems legit.