No x, no y, just Z is a pattern so often used by chatGPT it has started to bleed into common usage by people who maybe aren't even using an LLM.
No x, no y, just Z is a pattern so often used by chatGPT it has started to bleed into common usage by people who maybe aren't even using an LLM.
Or maybe ChatGPT picked it up from common usage.
It was used occasionally before chatGPT but it has exploded since then.
Apparently ChatGPT speaks like lower-class Kenyans. You can guess why.
Language is fluid. This is ok.
There are many bad things about LLMs, but a benign shift in popular language usage isn't one of them.
> There are many bad things about LLMs, but a benign shift in popular language usage isn't one of them.
Organic shifts in language are fine. What is not fine is Big Money (which most forms of AI are) manipulating society at large - and that's not just the AI companies' doing. Think of Tiktok leading people to say "unalive" instead of the various clear words before (e.g. kill, murder, executed, run over by car, mauled to death by animal).
I disagree. It's a sign of what is essentially cultural contamination by an LLM. There is something vaguely gross about it, like when people start repeating advertising slogans. It's a sign that someone spent enough money that they directly rewired our brains.
Do you get grossed out when you step on a linoleum floor? Or you ride an escalator? Or drink out of a thermos?
Culture contaminates.
> like when people start repeating advertising slogans
but without the craft of a good advertising slogan. So worse!
...and way more centralized and powerful.
For everyone who is as dumb as I am, the comment pertains to the title.
x=CPU y=Memory Z=4k gates
when i was running for 5th grade class president a number of decades ago, my campaign sign slogan was a "no x, no y, just z" snowclone.