The creator poses a question about AI's influence on language, uses an analogy of couples becoming similar, presents a chart showing the rise of AI content, and then draws a parallel to George Orwell's "Newspeak" from 1984 to argue that homogenized, AI-driven language can limit human thought, concluding with a call to action to read more diverse books.
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Also I’m not necessarily anti-AI, I’m anti consuming the same kind of content over and over again. Language shapes how we think more than we realize. Read old books. Watch good movies. Go to art galleries. Feed your brain a varied diet. Or we might end up saying things like «plusgood»
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You no that everything is starting to sound like AI, even when it's not, you no, how couples sometimes start to look alike. They use the same expressions, they speak in the same way, and they almost start to feel like siblings. We mirror what we're exposed to. We are by nature, mimetic beings. So if most of what you consume has the same sentence structure, pacing and the same kind of logic, of course you will start to sound like that too. But language isn't neutral. It really can rewire how you rank, which reminds me a lot of Newspeak in Orwell's 1984. Newspeak was a language designed to shrink vocabulary, to make our expressions simpler. So that certain thoughts literally became impossible to think. As an example, instead of having many words for something being good, like excellent, amazing, or incredible, you best say good. And if it was really good, plus good, or even double plus good. Same with bad, it would be good. Because if you can control thoughts, you don't need to use force. I'm not saying that what is happening is this extreme, but I find it very concerning that one company or maybe two rank influence how we think. All this just to say, read more books guys, preferably old ones.