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“Join any #Zoom call, walk into any lecture hall, or watch any #YouTube video, and listen carefully. Past the content and inside the #LinguisticPatterns, you’ll find the creeping #uniformity of #AIVoice.

Words like “#prowess” and “#tapestry,” which are favored by ChatGPT, are creeping into our vocabulary, while words like “#bolster,” “#unearth,” and “#nuance,” words less favored by ChatGPT, have declined in use.

Researchers are already documenting shifts in the way we speak and communicate as a result of ChatGPT — and they see this #linguistic #influence accelerating into something much larger.

In the 18 months after #ChatGPT was released, speakers used words like “meticulous,” “delve,” “realm,” and “adept” up to 51 percent more frequently than in the three years prior, according to researchers at the #MaxPlanckInstitute for Human Development, who analyzed close to 280,000 #YouTube videos from academic channels.

The researchers ruled out other possible change points before ChatGPT’s release and confirmed these words align with those the model favors, as established in an earlier study comparing 10,000 human- and #AIEdited texts. The #speakers don’t realize their #language is changing. That’s exactly the point.”

<theverge.com/openai/686748/cha> (paywall) / <archive.md/QOe8w>

The Verge · You sound like ChatGPTBy Sara Parker

Rated and reviewed

Unearth
2 Stars

Very slow, bordering on boring. The actual story does not kick in, before half of the runtime is over. Also the characters are not very engaging and the plot ... I don't know ... it could have been so much better.

On the good side: Grueling atmosphere fitting the ecohorror very well and overall very compelling visuals.

letterboxd.com/sehwolf/film/un

#AdrienneBarbeau
#Unearth
#EcoHorror
#Horror
#Spooktober
#Movie
#Cinema
#FilMastodon
#Letterboxd

I've watched two horror films in the last week in which nature is a major character--- #Unearth and #WithoutName. The former is an #ecohorror film in which fracking leads to a Mother Nature uprising. The latter could perhaps be classified along the same lines in which Nature resists developmental plans. I love the creative approaches in each. They are quieter in that they don't rely on jump scares. The horror unfolds organically and within the context of the story world. #Horror #Movie