@williampietri "I don't think anyone has reliable information about post-2021 language usage by humans."
Wow. No words could describe the feeling I got reading that.
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@williampietri "I don't think anyone has reliable information about post-2021 language usage by humans." 7 comments
@natpryce Could be! Although I could see it going the other way, people leaning into slang and other human-driven linguistic evolution so that they are more likely to feel real. And perhaps we'll see a fair bit of both. @natpryce @rosco @williampietri For a while, telegraphers' and radio operators' shorthand expressions crossed over into general use. @rosco @williampietri reminds me of how carbon dating suffered after nuclear tests in the 1950s |
@rosco @williampietri Give it a few years and humans will talk like the AI-generated slop they see on the Internet. Look how shorthand invented to save time typing on 1990s mobile phone number pads became used in everyday speech.