[creatonez]

I don't think this problem matters as much as people say it does, except maybe from a research perspective. The chatbot has essentially become part of human culture, it speaks human languages and could actually subtly influence the way human language works. It may develop its own idioms and communication style, and humans may adopt some of this. So yes: now that LLMs are released, everything is polluted in some way, similar to radioactive isotopes. But language is descriptive, not prescriptive: it always works as long as there is shared understanding. People will cherry pick the ChatGPT answers they were able to understand when publishing to the internet, and ignore/ridicule the output that didn't make sense to them.

Note that GPT-3.5 and above are already intentionally polluted with their own output by the RLHF process.

[alex_sf]

My apologies, but as a human language model, it is unlikely that ChatGPT would have much impact on human culture.

[geraldhh]

why not?

i'd say llm's represent a institutionalized reinforcement of bias (much like journalism) combined with some in-human autonomy.