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LLMs are changing how we speak, say German researchers (www.theregister.com)
submitted 15 hours ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/humanities@beehaw.org
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I'll believe that from German researchers when LLMs start shoehorning four nouns together instead of just delving.

A team from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Germany published a non-peer-reviewed preprint copy of research they say detects that words that ChatGPT uses preferentially have started to appear more frequently in human speech since the bot was unleashed on the world in 2022.

So-called "GPT words" include comprehend, boast, swift, meticulous, and the most popular, delve. After analyzing 360,445 YouTube academic talks and 771,591 podcast episodes, the team concluded words like delve, swift, meticulous, and inquiry were just a few examples of terms that began appearing in more podcasts and videos across various topics.

I'd like to nominate "authenticity" as the vapid word of the year.

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[–] JSGale@beehaw.org 1 points 5 hours ago

I think people's vocabularies got worse as they stopped reading. While irritating, this is nothing compared to that.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 5 points 15 hours ago

Alternate title: Generation that venerated books reading for the first time

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

I've heard as a possible explanation before that LLMs are mainly trained on long-form written texts, whereas more colloquial speech (spoken or in text chat form) typically uses simpler speech. So, where normal humans would put "Sure!" or "Yeah!", the LLM will likely write "Certainly!", because that's more likely what's written in a blog post.