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Re:Why wordfreq will not be updated by bee_rider on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @12:40PM (#41582159)
We’ve seen this with a couple words and expressions, and I don’t doubt that AI is somewhat likely to “like” some phrases for whatever reason. Big eigenvaues of the latent space or whatever, hahaha (I don’t know AI).

But also, words and phrases do become popular among humans, right? It would be a shame if AI caused the language to get more stagnant, as keeping up with which phrases are popular get you labeled as an AI.

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Re:Why wordfreq will not be updated by cdrini on Thursday September 19, 2024 @04:21AM (#41589719)
Exactly, like how "mindful" and "demure" recently became more popular for seemingly no reason. Humans do this all the time.

And language in general stagnates and shrinks in vocabulary over time ( https://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2019/09/why-is-vocabulary-s... ). (Link that ChatGPT helped me find :P) I think AI will increase the average persons vocabulary, since it appears to in general be better/more professionally written than a lot of what the average person is exposed to online.

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