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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Now that AI generated text is mostly indistinguishable from human text, AI may start influencing the evolution of our language. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by aCosmicWave@lemm.ee to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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Given that language is an important lens through which we see the world, AI could subtly alter our perceptions and beliefs over the coming years, decades, and centuries.

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[–] Hextic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

AI will start accidentally creating new slang which the young generation will start incorporating ironically until it sticks to the point us old heads will start saying it unironically (like how my 40 year old ass been saying 'yeet' lately) and then boom, it's part of the normal language.