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ChatGPT is influencing human speech patterns, research suggests.
An uptick in specific words, contexts supports the claims.
After shaping word choices, AI could shape word definitions.
Delve, intricate, surpass. Perhaps you've been hearing and seeing these words more often -- ChatGPT may be to blame. People are adopting language from the chatbot's lexicon, according to Florida State University researchers.
The university's Modern Languages and Linguistics, Computer Science, and Mathematics departments collaborated to reveal that the chatbot's most overused words are influencing human speech patterns. The new patterns are a direct result of ChatGPT's widespread adoption and use, as more than half of adults under 30 and almost half of adults ages 30 to 49 have used the service, according to the Pew Research Center.
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"Language is the most powerful medium of communication that humanity has and understanding how AI will affect this medium is fundamentally important and timely," Bryce Anderson, an FSU computer science major on the research team, said in a press release last week.
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