<story><title>Multifaceted: The linguistic echo chambers of LLMs</title><url>https://blog.j11y.io/2023-11-22_multifaceted/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yosito</author><text>This is a very interesting observation. It seems like a relatively harmless, though annoying, linguistic evolution. But it highlights what I believe to be one of the biggest dangers of AI, which is that AI content is regurgitated and used everywhere to such a degree that not only are individuals unwittingly consuming AI generated content, but it is actually dramatically affecting the evolution of our collective language and knowledge as a species without us consciously realizing it, and with very little control on our part. This can produce not just annoying linguistic changes, but also changes in collective beliefs and values. Best case scenario, we end up with our culture and values being heavily influenced by random AI artifacts. Worst case scenario, the content policies and training data that companies like OpenAI use can rapidly encode biases, politics, or even nefarious propaganda into our collective consciousness with very little recourse or even awareness on our part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>laborcontract</author><text>On the flip side, LLM&amp;#x27;s have given me great appreciation for my own writing. I&amp;#x27;m not great at writing, but I&amp;#x27;ve come to appreciate that I really like the stuff that I write. I derive a ton of joy from having a thought, tossing it around, trying to put it on paper, revising it a zillion times, and reading back what I wrote.&lt;p&gt;LLMs have helped me ease a lot of creative frustration because I know there&amp;#x27;s always a way to turn on easy mode and that me staying on hard mode is a choice, not a curse. The alleviation of pressure has helped me put out more natural output.&lt;p&gt;ChatGPT has made mechanical writing punk.</text></comment>
<story><title>Multifaceted: The linguistic echo chambers of LLMs</title><url>https://blog.j11y.io/2023-11-22_multifaceted/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yosito</author><text>This is a very interesting observation. It seems like a relatively harmless, though annoying, linguistic evolution. But it highlights what I believe to be one of the biggest dangers of AI, which is that AI content is regurgitated and used everywhere to such a degree that not only are individuals unwittingly consuming AI generated content, but it is actually dramatically affecting the evolution of our collective language and knowledge as a species without us consciously realizing it, and with very little control on our part. This can produce not just annoying linguistic changes, but also changes in collective beliefs and values. Best case scenario, we end up with our culture and values being heavily influenced by random AI artifacts. Worst case scenario, the content policies and training data that companies like OpenAI use can rapidly encode biases, politics, or even nefarious propaganda into our collective consciousness with very little recourse or even awareness on our part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tsunamifury</author><text>How is that worse than every gen x girl in the 90s talking like Rachel and every boy taking like Chandlier.&lt;p&gt;Everyone gets their pants in a bunch when a technology does what people already were doing before.</text></comment>