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AI suggestions make writing more generic, Western | Cornell Chronicle

A new study from Cornell on AI writing assistants finds these tools have the potential to function poorly for billions of users in the Global South by generating generic language that makes them sound more like Americans.

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Funny, this outcome was long overdue and predictable. GIGO- Garbage in, garbage out.

It’s almost similar to the way LLMs churn out similar code suggestions. Or how most websites look alike thanks to Tailwind CSS.

The biggest challenge with AI in my view isn’t the loss of jobs, it’s the death of creativity:

  • If your style can be copied, replicated and regurgitated then what is the incentive for creating?
  • Which creator wants to be the cheap raw material for an eternal machine that keeps taking, taking and never giving?
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