Empirical evidence of Large Language Model's influence on human spoken communication

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From the printing press to social media, innovations in communication technology have repeatedly reshaped how ideas spread through human culture.

• Chatbots powered by generative artificial intelligence constitute a new medium, encoding cultural patterns in their neural representations and disseminating them in conversations with hundreds of millions of people.
• Whether these patterns transmit into human language, and ultimately shape human culture, is a fundamental question.
• While fully quantifying the causal impact of a chatbot like ChatGPT on human culture is challenging, lexical shifts in human spoken communication may offer an early indicator.