Back in the day the super rich couldn’t bother to write any better, but at least they had the decency to hire a secretary so their messages were even somewhat legible. Seems like the habit of dictating your messages has all but vanished, even in professional contexts.
Maybe the 14-16 year olds they now “hire” are too young to write professionally, compared to the 18-20 somethings of yesteryears.
I think I encountered it first in (old school) Runescape, where one of the songs in the soundtrack is named yesteryear. That was back before the old school distinction, when I was still in elementary.
It’s one of the first tracks you hear when you start playing, in case you’re not familiar.
And for anyone who doesn’t know, you can experience Runescape as it was in its heyday via 2009scape!
The best part is, they offer XP multipliers (by default you can select 1x, 2.5x or 5x XP in case you have a job and responsibilities) its also a super active project with a brilliantly healthy official server to play on, and completely free to play with optional singleplayer!
This is honestly the first I’d thought about it…but language has always been dynamic and organic. Rapid communication has already led to rapid evolution of language and distribution of slang.
Then you get LLMs slurping up all this content and condensing it and adding their own language into the pile.
Eventually the majority of what they intake will be the output of all the other LLMs, and then it’s a feedback loop.
Sure, but a lot of that is holdovers from back when you had to put pieces of dead trees into a cryptographic mangler just to tell your secret lover that y’all’re gonna get your freak on that motel by the movie theater.
Back in the day the super rich couldn’t bother to write any better, but at least they had the decency to hire a secretary so their messages were even somewhat legible. Seems like the habit of dictating your messages has all but vanished, even in professional contexts.
Maybe the 14-16 year olds they now “hire” are too young to write professionally, compared to the 18-20 somethings of yesteryears.
Hey hello there I had never heard yesteryears and it is exquisite.
Thank you very much
I think I encountered it first in (old school) Runescape, where one of the songs in the soundtrack is named yesteryear. That was back before the old school distinction, when I was still in elementary.
It’s one of the first tracks you hear when you start playing, in case you’re not familiar.
And for anyone who doesn’t know, you can experience Runescape as it was in its heyday via 2009scape!
The best part is, they offer XP multipliers (by default you can select 1x, 2.5x or 5x XP in case you have a job and responsibilities) its also a super active project with a brilliantly healthy official server to play on, and completely free to play with optional singleplayer!
Cries in sea shanty 2
Everybody is so worried about the environmental impact of LLMs…has anyone stopped to consider the etymological impact?
Not to mention the entomological impact (because this whole thing is really bugging me)
Aye…LLMs are producing all sorts of never-before-seen bugs.
And naked kids on Twitter. But mainly the bugs.
Many people consider these things. On microblog fedi, I see threads (long posts, effectively) about this regularly.
This is honestly the first I’d thought about it…but language has always been dynamic and organic. Rapid communication has already led to rapid evolution of language and distribution of slang.
Then you get LLMs slurping up all this content and condensing it and adding their own language into the pile.
Eventually the majority of what they intake will be the output of all the other LLMs, and then it’s a feedback loop.
Sure, but a lot of that is holdovers from back when you had to put pieces of dead trees into a cryptographic mangler just to tell your secret lover that y’all’re gonna get your freak on that motel by the movie theater.
Nowadays, anyone can type “U up?”