[thih9]

This worries me. Some AI writing styles became mainstream; at first it was the em-dashes, now it’s “A, not B” patterns and excessive acknowledging. There will be more.

Was grandparent comment written by an LLM?

Or is this a human who copies a style they saw in a blog post, unaware that they’re copying an AI?

Or is this a human who spent too much time talking to an AI and now they just talk like this?

Or is this an organic human response and we’re all paranoid by now?

I don’t know which would be worse.

[elevation]

When learning a language, I've heard it's good to find a reference speaker, such as a prolific actor, and mimic them in order to absorb several aspects of what makes them sound authentic as a speaker, such as vocabulary, intonation, diction, pacing.

For many in the next generation of language learners, this reference will be Claude.

[vbezhenar]

I think that the fact that AI has a very recognizable singular style is a problem. And this problem will be solved, sooner or later. It probably isn't a very important problem, because I feel that it should be relatively easy to solve (but maybe I'm wrong?).

But certainly with smarter AI I do believe it'll become more fluent with choosing more diverse idioms and phrasing, rather than repeating one thing over and over, to a point of being a comically similar. So people who learn on AI-generated text, will not learn from just one recurring style.

[pastage]

> It probably isn't a very important problem

The amount of languages are decreasing on the earth, I would also say that dialects and accents are decreasing as well. I think this is a problem.

[disqard]

Insightful, and scary! Imitating an imitation machine... even if no one is trying to intentionally do so, McLuhan's "we become what we behold" is inescapable.

[8bitsout]

I'm going to go insane from all of this

[eddd-ddde]

So? That's literally how language works. The importance is not in the writing style, but in the content of the words.

[thfuran]

Those are not separate things.