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There is no doubt there is a lot of AI generated content. We do it too - code, tutorials, etc. It is just too convenient and useful to ignore.

The question that I have is this.

Is it possible the language will converge towards AI mannerism when writing - i.e. most people will naturally write like AI because they will pick up on the subtleties of language from ChatGPT, Claude, etc? In other words there is an exposure effect at play.

I just found out about Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) which makes me think that the answer is probably "yes".

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> Is it possible the language will converge towards AI mannerism when writing

As a non-native English speaker leaving in a non English-speaking country I thought about this too, but in a more selfish and practical manner: what if my English in particular converges towards AI mannerisms?

You see, if you live in an English speaking country and your family speaks English you still have some amount of guaranteed-to-be-human language input from taking to people face-to-face in real life.

But for me, 99.9% of English input I receive is online. So I wonder, how much of it is already AI and how much has the non-artificial neural network inside my brain has retrained itself to mimick AI.

This is scary, because before I was absolutely sure that consuming content online improves my ability to understand and use English. Now I'm not so sure anymore.

Maybe instead of people picking up AI mannerism people will start training on what makes AI gives correct results and human communication will look like prompting.

No doubt there will sho as hail cum too pas lingo wot am un-clanker-lock. Betcha bottum dolah.

If it has any regularity to it, then LLMs will, so to speak, figure it out. Maybe if you do it like a game of Mao¹ you could make it a little bit harder for them.

1. https://everything2.com/node/e2node/How%20to%20play%20Mao

I'm reminded of how adults struggle to keep up with urban-dictionary-speak. I doubt they'll keep-up wif teen-speak-on-steroids. 6-7.

Great question posed. Headed to read up on CAT now

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