Curious what the long-term effects from the current LLM-based "AI" systems embedded in virtually everything and pushed aggressively will be in let's say 10 years, any strong opinions or predictions on this topic?

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m4rtink 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Like with asbesthos and lead paint, we are building surprises today for the people of tomorrow!

And asbestos and lead paint was actually useful.

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yesco 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If we focus only on the impact on linguistics, I predict things will go something like this:

As LLM use normalizes for essay writing (email, documentation, social media, etc), a pattern emerges where everyone uses an LLM as an editor. People only create rough drafts and then have their "editor" make it coherent.

Interestingly, people might start using said editor prompts to express themselves, causing an increased range in distinct writing styles. Despite this, vocabulary and semantics as a whole become more uniform. Spelling errors and typos become increasingly rare.

In parallel, people start using LLMs to summarize content in a style they prefer.

Both sides of this gradually converge. Content gets explicitly written in a way that is optimized for consumption by an LLM, perhaps a return to something like the semantic web. Authors write content in a way that encourages a summarizing LLM to summarize as the author intends for certain explicit areas.

Human languages start to evolve in a direction that could be considered more coherent than before, and perhaps less ambiguous. Language is the primary interface an LLM uses with humans, so even if LLM use becomes baseline for many things, if information is not being communicated effectively then an LLM would be failing at its job. I'm personifying LLMs a bit here but I just mean it in a game theory / incentive structure way.

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Peritract 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> people might start using said editor prompts to express themselves, causing an increased range in distinct writing styles

We're already seeing people use AI to express themselves in several contexts, but it doesn't lead to an increased range of styles. It leads to one style, the now-ubiquitous upbeat LinkedIn tone.

Theoretically we could see diversification here, with different tools prompting towards different voices, but at the moment the trend is the opposite.

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cluckindan 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>Human languages start to evolve in a direction that could be considered more coherent than before

Guttural vocalizations accompanied by frantic gesturing towards a mobile device, or just silence and showing of LLM output to others?

	▲	yesco 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I was primarily discussing written language in my post, as that's easier to speculate on. That said, if most people turn into hermits and start living in pods around this period, then I think you would be in the right direction.

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basch 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>People only create rough drafts and then have their "editor" make it coherent.

While sometimes I do dump a bunch of scratch work and ask for it to be transformed into organized though, more often I find that I use LLM output the opposite way.

Give a prompt. Save the text. Reroll. Save the text. Change the prompt, reroll. Then going through the heap of vomit to find the diamonds. Sort of a modern version of "write drunk, edit sober" with the LLM being the alcohol in the drunk half of me. It can work as a brainstorming step to turn fragments of though into a bunch of drafts of thought, then to be edited down into elegant thought. Asking the LLM to synthesize its drafts usually discards the best nuggets for lesser variants.

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netsharc 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Hopefully the brainrot will mean older developers, who know how to code the old-fashioned way, don't get replaced so quickly..

	▲	nly 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Or they'll be fired for not working fast enough, which already happens

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SecretDreams 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It'll be a lot like giving children all the answers without teaching them how to get the answers for themselves.

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binary132 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Most people will continue to become dumber. Some people will try to embrace and adapt. They will become the power-stupids. Others will develop a sort of immune reaction to AI and develop into a separate evolutionary family.