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If you wrote this yourself, congratulations are in order. I was genuinely annoyed. It’s not easy. It’s hard. It’s not entertaining. It’s infuriating.

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You're absolutely right!

I was at a restaurant the other day and my kid noticed how the waiter started every sentence with "Absolutely!" That reminded me of the Anthropic Super Bowl ad, and got me thinking if the waiter's speech patterns had been influenced by AI.

Yes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01754

Eventually we will just speak tokenese rather than english

Nonsense. We grew up quoting our favourite shows, abhorring certain words, preferring others. This is just another cultural modification engine, like everything else humans do.

In my time in the US, way before LLMs, very agreeable and helpful waiters/Whole Foods staff would already be using ‘absolutely!’ in that enthusiastic manner. Helping someone out was always possible, I enjoyed that.

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