fireweedFeb 4

Reading the Files got me like

https://lemmy.world/post/42674182

Show threadantimidasFeb 4

Back in the day the super rich couldn’t bother to write any better, but at least they had the decency to hire a secretary so their messages were even somewhat legible. Seems like the habit of dictating your messages has all but vanished, even in professional contexts.

Maybe the 14-16 year olds they now “hire” are too young to write professionally, compared to the 18-20 somethings of yesteryears.

Show threadJasonDJFeb 5
Everybody is so worried about the environmental impact of LLMs…has anyone stopped to consider the etymological impact?
Show threadKairos
Many people consider these things. On microblog fedi, I see threads (long posts, effectively) about this regularly.
Feb 5 at 1:37amWeb
Show threadJasonDJFeb 5

This is honestly the first I’d thought about it…but language has always been dynamic and organic. Rapid communication has already led to rapid evolution of language and distribution of slang.

Then you get LLMs slurping up all this content and condensing it and adding their own language into the pile.

Eventually the majority of what they intake will be the output of all the other LLMs, and then it’s a feedback loop.