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2026-04-26 09:21 UTC

I'm currently studying and gathering studies about language and cognition to see if LLMs could do anything to our culture. So far I'd lean to say that, yes, they could curate our words and thus alter the way we speak, write and think. Words are linked to our perception of reality somehow and given enough time our overlords could curate words they like, shadowban others and in that way interact with what we can communicate and think about. Obviously there is a large group of people rejecting AI so they wouldn't suffer from this.

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@DandomRude@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 10:08

That sounds very interesting - please keep us posted. I think it’s very important to examine the effects of LLMs on society, how they influence discourse, their impact on the formation of public opinion, and the question of whether - and if so, to what extent - they shift the interpretation of words and narratives toward the few corporations that offer cloud models, and so on. This is a broad field, but one that strikes me as quite important from a wide variety of perspectives. It’s good to hear that there are people here who are looking into this from a scientific standpoint. I’d be very happy if you could update us on the state of research from time to time. The more perspectives there are on this topic, the better.

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