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?
Maybe they’ll help people sort out the difference between “affect” and “effect”.
On the contrary, AI will have been trained on so much bad grammar that it will become even more ingrained into society.
Idk about that, I haven’t noticed any spelling mistakes so far (except that one post where they asked GPT3.5 to list the steps in counting the A’s in “mayonnaise” and counted like 4 of them)