Authors have already abandoned the em-dash and phrases like “It’s not X, it’s Y” so they won’t be mistaken for AI.
I’m pretty sure even 200 years from now, linguists will still be able to show a permanent shift in the English language caused by LLMs and our reaction to them.
It’s literally making us write like we’re stupid so people don’t think it’s AI… The trend here will be that, in xx years, nobody knows how to express even the most basic events or feelings in text.
This is Orwell-level control of language. Only approved feelings will have words for them.
Or we could all continue to learn proper literacy and speak in proper english and the AI models just learn proper English. Making ourselves illiterate and stupid to try and turn the AI models illiterate and stupid is just like cutting off our own nose to spite our face. What did we accomplish, and was it worth the cost?
I agree completely. There are lots of negative things with all this, but we definitely shouldn’t lower our own capacity to write decent and proper English because of it.
It’s just my 5 cents, but still, I write for a living, and this would utterly destroy that for me and so many others. …and for what? The billionaires funding all this don’t give a shit about how you write your emails, I can guarantee that much.
Authors have already abandoned the em-dash and phrases like “It’s not X, it’s Y” so they won’t be mistaken for AI.
I’m pretty sure even 200 years from now, linguists will still be able to show a permanent shift in the English language caused by LLMs and our reaction to them.
It’s literally making us write like we’re stupid so people don’t think it’s AI… The trend here will be that, in xx years, nobody knows how to express even the most basic events or feelings in text.
This is Orwell-level control of language. Only approved feelings will have words for them.
Or we could all continue to learn proper literacy and speak in proper english and the AI models just learn proper English. Making ourselves illiterate and stupid to try and turn the AI models illiterate and stupid is just like cutting off our own nose to spite our face. What did we accomplish, and was it worth the cost?
I agree completely. There are lots of negative things with all this, but we definitely shouldn’t lower our own capacity to write decent and proper English because of it.
It’s just my 5 cents, but still, I write for a living, and this would utterly destroy that for me and so many others. …and for what? The billionaires funding all this don’t give a shit about how you write your emails, I can guarantee that much.
On the other hand - I can already hear people talking as if they were the AI.
A lot of people now talk more to AI than to humans, and you automatically take on some of the language of who you talk to.