From Gizmodo, March 12:
For a "large" language model, the diversity of outputs is pretty small.
There has been a creeping sense that, since large language models like ChatGPT have become publicly accessible and more widely used, people have started writing and sounding more like AI-generated content. (Of course, AI is just doing an impression of an amalgam of human-created material, so there’s a clear chicken and egg here.) Now there is evidence to support that sneaking suspicion. In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, researchers at the University of Southern California warned that the use of LLMs risks flattening human thought and creativity....
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