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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.

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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.

> 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.

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.

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