[ExI] People are starting to write and speak like CHATGPT.

[Adrian Tymes]

Are we?  Or is AI just making more apparent a uniformity that was there all
along?

On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> You sound like ChatGPT / AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s
> changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more
> to come.
> by Sara Parker     Jun 20, 2025.
>
> <
> https://www.theverge.com/openai/686748/chatgpt-linguistic-impact-common-word-usage
> >
> Quote:
> Join any Zoom call, walk into any lecture hall, or watch any YouTube
> video, and listen carefully. Past the content and inside the
> linguistic patterns, you’ll find the creeping uniformity of AI voice.
> But it’s not just that we’re adopting AI language — it’s about how
> we’re starting to sound. Even though current studies mostly focus on
> vocabulary, researchers suspect that AI influence is starting to show
> up in tone, too — in the form of longer, more structured speech and
> muted emotional expression.
> ------------------
>
> So AI is not only taking over our thinking; it is teaching us to talk
> like AI as well.
> I've noticed that people have started apologising in emails for using
> CHATGPT to "improve" their writing.
> Sometimes justified by not being a native English speaker.
> AI is so useful for the younger generation that AI English will
> rapidly become the new standard vocabulary.
>
> BillK
>
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