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The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

I'm not aware of any paper about this; specially with how recent LLMs are, it's kind of hard to detect tendencies.

That said, if I had to take a guess, the impact of LLMs in language will be rather subtle:

  • Some words will become more common because bots use them a lot, and people become more aware of those words. "Delve" comes to my mind. (Urgh. I hate this word.)
  • Swearing will become more common too. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw an uptick of "fuck" and "shit" after ChatGPT was released. That's because those bot don't swear, so swearing is a good way to show "I'm human".
  • Idiosyncratic language might also increase, as a mix of the above and to avoid sounding "bland and bot-like". Including letting some small typos to go through on purpose.

Text-to-speech, mentioned by @[email protected], is another can of worms; it might reinforce non-common pronunciations until they become common. This should not be a big issue e.g. in Italian (that uses a mostly regular spelling), but it might be noticeable in English.