P.S. Gen Z hates AI and might be much less susceptible to changing how they talk/think based on LLMs than older people, which is a fascinating inversion of every past technology shift. Folks who are pretending the AI rollout is following the same adoption curve as the web browser or the smartphone simply don't have the facts to back it up.

I do touch on that later on in a still WIP article. I initially wondered if LLMs have the potential to interfere with our words and meaning, and I'd argue they do. At what time scale, I do not know yet, I'm still trying to gather evidence for that. And I'm not arguing either in the subsequent articles that this will absolutely happen. Nobody knows how things will pan out exactly. The thesis is simply can AI interfere with language and meaning, and what could it look like?

You argue that people are still influenced by people and that is true, and I also write later on that part of the population rejects AI entirely and will thus resist the potential effects I discuss. But there is plenty of existing currents like anti-vaccines that show how a part of a population can have consequence on the entire population.

Then again, I decided to write those articles because I think it is worth exploring. Not because I want to spread AI doom stories or worry people but simply because that's where my curiosity leads me.

100% of my workplace (where I spend the majority of my waking time) is heavily affected by this.

Maybe by population the vast majority of people aren’t affected; it’s a bit different ratio when looking at where the wealth is being focused.

It has the potential to fuck up everything, which is why there is so much alarm.

LLMs spell words correctly (usually) and use complete sentences with proper grammar, so this may be a positive for most of the population.