DELVE
“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.”
<https://www.theverge.com/openai/686748/chatgpt-linguistic-impact-common-word-usage> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/QOe8w>