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AI is making us think and write more alike: Large language models are standardizing human expression — and subtly influencing how we think
(dornsife.usc.edu)
Within groups and societies, cognitive diversity bolsters creativity and problem-solving, say the researchers. However, cognitive diversity is shrinking worldwide as billions of people are using the same handful of AI chatbots for an increasing number of tasks, they add. When people use chatbots to help them polish their writing, for example, the writing ends up losing its stylistic individuality, and people feel less creative ownership over what they produce.
Good and bad. Just like having language standards.
Bad - it's already been said why.
Good - because uniformity does help understanding each other, and because conversational interfaces are more efficient and less error-prone with less diversity.
So much confusion could be avoided if people didn't use the same words to mean different things.
Well, say, in VAEs confusion is one of the reasons it even works. I mean, it's the mathematical confusion and not what we mean in language, but there might be a parallel.