The machine trained on human culture is now returning a processed version of that culture back to the public, and early evidence suggests that people are absorbing it in their daily language, judgement and habits.
The spread of ChatGPT-style vocabulary is not just about a change in word choice, but an early sign of a worrying feedback loop: human expressions are fed into AI, flattened into machine-preferred patterns, then reintroduced as the template for how to write and speak.
The same dynamic is also appearing in more intimate areas of life, as users turn to AI for emotional advice, moral reassurance, personal routines, and everyday decisions. Research on sycophantic models and cognitive offloading also increasingly suggests that the machine is teaching people how to act and sound, while also leading them to think less independently....<<<Read More>>>....