• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    So perversely chatbots are increasing people’s vocabulary because people read so few books anymore and most of their word usage comes from what they read online?

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      5 days ago

      What’s more than that, chatbots use those words because writers use those words. That’s journalist vocab. And bots were trained on articles and written speech. I think you’re right, people just weren’t reading anything.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      That’s kinda how I took it. Be funny if language evolved back into flowery Victorian speech.