Hello!
I have recently begun some research on the potential impact of widespread LLM use by the population on our writing, speech and ideas.
This will become a series synthesizing my research and findings. I have just published the introductory post which is a better explanation of my intent, plan, and reasons.
While anecdotal and unusable for research, I’m curious, did anyone hear notice some change in phrasing, words of choice, in someone using LLM heavily?
Just as the “neutral/midwest dialect” tempered a lot of regional accents with the emergence of national broadcast tv and radio, using the same AI tools might cause us to lose some of our regionally/age specific idioms/etc language and give rise to an “AI dialect”. I haven’t gone looking for any hard evidence of this happening yet but Ada Palmer and Bruce Schneier have an interesting thought piece on the subject.
LLMs spell words correctly (usually) and use complete sentences with proper grammar, so this may be a positive for most of the population.