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> We study vocabulary changes in 14 million PubMed abstracts from 2010-2024, and show how the appearance of LLMs led to an abrupt increase in the frequency of certain style words.

"Delving".. Sounds like the authors might have used an LLM while writing this paper as well.

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It’s a joke. Delve is the first example they show.

I associate the word strongly with Lord of the Rings.

"The AI researchers delved too greedily and too deep, and awoke the BaLLMrog."

LLMichel Delving

This is clearly a joke in the paper, they mention Delving is on of the words with the biggest frequency increase.

It's the Voight-Kampff test for LLMs :)

I'm surprised people make such a big deal out of "delving", it doesn't seem rare. Maybe it was less common in the US than elsewhere?

(and do I have to deliberately avoid it now, to avoid sounding like AI?)

I think it's not an extraordinarily rare word in the US, but it does feel to me more at home in a blog post or business strategy-ish document than a PubMed abstract. People are making a big deal of it just because the signal is so strong (25x more common now than in 2022).

Yes, it's a bullshit business buzzword. It shows up because the LLMs are trained on a lot of corporate word salad.

It might rather be because of who is (was) doing the HF of RLFH, or where most big moat builders went https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape...

The spike is global.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=delving&...

We in the US we like to DiG

That’s the joke.

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