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submitted 8 months ago by Lemmeenym@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

The ubiquity of audio commutation technologies, particularly telephone, radio, and TV, have had a significant affect on language. They further spread English around the world making it more accessible and more necessary for lower social and economic classes, they led to the blending of dialects and the death of some smaller regional dialects. They enabled the rapid adoption of new words and concepts.

How will LLMs affect language? Will they further cement English as the world's dominant language or lead to the adoption of a new lingua franca? Will they be able to adapt to differences in dialects or will they force us to further consolidate how we speak? What about programming languages? Will the model best able to generate usable code determine what language or languages will be used in the future? Thoughts and beliefs generally follow language, at least on the social scale, how will LLM's affects on language affect how we think and act? What we believe?

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[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Each generation thinks they had it the right way and younger ones have it easy. You can go back centuries with people pushing each other down.

What should be encouraged is the exchange of ideas and healthy debate. Words are just a tool for that, and spelling and grammar and " not knowing Latin" are components of it.

A couple generations down the road we would be able to accurately transmit our thoughts to other people and calibrate for their culture and growing up biases, and the generation immediately before it will whine when LLM was the right way to communicate.

[-] Icalasari@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Eh, LLMs do have a significant problem in how they can generate false information by themselves. Every other tool prior requires a person to make said false information, but LLMs can just generate it when asked a question

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

So what's your point, should we trust machines less than the unhinged uncle at Thanksgiving?

[-] ekky@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

Jup, most definitely!

I'd much rather have just one unhinged uncle at St. Martin's Day than having everybody come off as the unhinged uncle by lack of supervision of the LLMs talking in your place, making it seem like being unhinged is normal and thereby creating artificial peer pressure in a truly wicked exercise of laziness.

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