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.
Everybody is so worried about the environmental impact of LLMs…has anyone stopped to consider the etymological impact?
Not to mention the entomological impact (because this whole thing is really bugging me)
Many people consider these things. On microblog fedi, I see threads (long posts, effectively) about this regularly.
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.