Walking into any lecture hall, zoom call, or YouTube video, all show a similar pattern. The words chosen are all the same . There is a creepy uniformity that was not there in the past which is favoured by AI.
Words like prowess, tapestry are favoured most by well known AI chatbot ChatGPT. These words are creeping into are words and becomes the most common vocabulary unlike words such as unearth, bolster, nuance which are less favoured by the Chatbot.
Is ChatGPT making human minds a machine centric one?
Researchers have found out there is a linguistic effect of ChatGPT in the way most of us speak and communicate.
Since the release of ChatGPT, there has been a decline in originality. Recently a Pakistani newspaper used AI chatbot to draft a news article. Is this the end of the creative era? IN about 18 months of ChatGPT, most of the speakers used words straight out of an AI bot.
Words such as “meticulous,” “delve,” “realm,” and “adept” were used the most in three years prior to it. These are frequently used not just in public debate but also in ted talks.
Social media is the clear example of the use of AI bot, no caption is drafted without the use of AI. Either one uses it to polish it or correct the grammar.
Uniformity in speech
The researchers ruled out other possible change points before ChatGPT’s release and confirmed these words align with those the model favors, as established in an earlier study comparing 10,000 human- and AI-edited texts.
It is not just we are just adopting AI language it becomes a question, how we are starting to sound. Researchers suspect that AI influence is starting to show up in tone, structured writing and emotion expression.
The human centric touch is somewhere lost. AI doesn’t instinctively know what is lead worthy, what’s buried, but humans do. The chatbots react the way they are instructed according to their prompt.
During online conversation, what if the other partner is using AI to show their emotions by copying the exact sentence from there instead of making efforts for the other. Sometimes, it’s not the AI usage it’ s the suspicion of it.
We have lost the verbal stumbles, regional idioms, and off-kilter phrases that signal vulnerability, authenticity, and personhood.
The problem that compounds is when you consider that one is helpless without the use of AI. Chatbots are designed just to research, make our lives easier. But using it to a different extent is repelling.
Lack of comprehension
Examples of this include ChatGPT repeating the prompt back to the non-Standard-American-English user due to lack of comprehension and exaggerating the input dialect significantly.
We’re approaching a splitting point, where AI’s impact on human writing and speaking move between the poles of standardization. From drafting personal emails, formal presentations, and authentic expression in personal chats, AI is overpowering the human race.
We’re seeing early signs that people will push back when AI influence becomes too obvious, while technology may evolve to better mirror human diversity rather than flatten it.
