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Language is fluid. This is ok. There are many bad things about LLMs, but a benign shift in popular language usage isn't one of them.
by peddling-brink 10mo ago
Language is fluid. This is ok.
There are many bad things about LLMs, but a benign shift in popular language usage isn't one of them.
- mschuster91 10mo ago> There are many bad things about LLMs, but a benign shift in popular language usage isn't one of them. Organic shifts in language are fine. What is not fine is Big Money (which most forms of AI are) manipulating society at large - and that's not just the AI companies' doing. Think of Tiktok leading people to say "unalive" instead of the various clear words before (e.g. kill, murder, executed, run over by car, mauled to death by animal).
- idiotsecant 10mo agoI disagree. It's a sign of what is essentially cultural contamination by an LLM. There is something vaguely gross about it, like when people start repeating advertising slogans. It's a sign that someone spent enough money that they directly rewired our brains.
- Marazan 10mo ago> like when people start repeating advertising slogans but without the craft of a good advertising slogan. So worse!
- attila-lendvai 10mo ago...and way more centralized and powerful.
- peddling-brink 10mo agoDo you get grossed out when you step on a linoleum floor? Or you ride an escalator? Or drink out of a thermos? Culture contaminates.