I think people's vocabularies got worse as they stopped reading. While irritating, this is nothing compared to that.
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2025
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Alternate title: Generation that ~~venerated~~ disregarded books reading for the first time
edit: omg for some reason I thought venerated meant dislike (it means the opposite!!). This is what happens when you're given books at too young an age folks. You pull fancy words out of your ass cuz they vibe right. But you risk realizing that you probably inferred the wrong definition from wherever you learnt it.
I know this feeling all too well. I was told about context clues and handed books from a very young age. It was sometimes a decade or two before I found out my presumed definition of a word was wrong. More regularly, though, I tried to show off my newfound vocabulary and was quickly disabused of my error.
I've heard as a possible explanation before that LLMs are mainly trained on long-form written texts, whereas more colloquial speech (spoken or in text chat form) typically uses simpler speech. So, where normal humans would put "Sure!" or "Yeah!", the LLM will likely write "Certainly!", because that's more likely what's written in a blog post.