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How are LLMs not the cause here? Reading online content is unpleasant these days because it all uses the same vocabulary and style. You can tell that an LLM wro
by jmcgough 1mo ago
How are LLMs not the cause here? Reading online content is unpleasant these days because it all uses the same vocabulary and style. You can tell that an LLM wrote or edited it and it grates on you.
I'd need to see a study showing that this was already a trend, because globalization should increase linguistic complexity via exposure to other cultures. I certainly didn't use the term chaebol until the rise of Korean pop culture.
- ahartmetz 1mo agoDo you actually read that LLM crap? I don't. You don't have to.
- sersi 1mo agoYup, I bounce very quickly as soon as I see typical formulaic LLM sentences. If the person online hasn't bothered writing the content, I don't see why I would waste time reading it. Personally, I use LLM to do a quick pass on my writing to see if there's any glaring issues but would never ask it to reformulate what I wrote. I feel that you then lose the voice behind it.
- jmcgough 1mo agoI honestly feel like letting myself read the LinkedIn feed is an act of self-harm at this point.
- ahartmetz 1mo agoSince long before LLMs, so nothing of value was lost.
- barrenko 1mo ago"because globalization should increase linguistic complexity via exposure to other cultures" it is quite obviously decreasing it.
- jmcgough 1mo agoPer https://eoconf.com/index.php/icmse/article/view/578 https://eoconf.com/index.php/icmse/article/view/578, globalization decreases complexity of individual languages through standardization, but increases overall complexity by creating new multilingual and hybrid forms. Either way, LLMs are an entirely different mechanism for shrinking linguistic diversity than just people watching Disney.
- breuleux 1mo ago> globalization should increase linguistic complexity via exposure to other cultures. I certainly didn't use the term chaebol until the rise of Korean pop culture. Globalization moves every culture towards each other, with a higher weight on dominant cultures. You borrow a few Korean words, they borrow a few more English words. McDonalds pop up everywhere, everyone buys the same phones, hotels across the world converge towards a standard experience, and so on. The end result of such a process is a monoculture. Not now, not medium term, but I expect a few centuries of globalism would suffice to blend all extant cultures into a slurry.