Elise Hu

I'm trying to go through what I'm hearing in my house that sounds like nonsense because I have a 13-year-old and a 10-year-old and an 8-year-old.

Yeah, I do like being called chat, though, instead of mom.

Oh, okay.

So when I'm referred to as chat, it's from like a live streamer typically saying like, hey, don't forget to subscribe.

Yeah.

I mean, there's the panopticon element of it, but it also strikes me as fascinating that so many young people today, when you ask them what they want to be when they grow up is a YouTuber, right?

Or to go viral or to be an influencer.

So now our life aspirations aren't a particular virtue.

but instead to be seen.

In your talk, you focus on how LLMs, large language models, and chatbot AIs are affecting speech, affecting the way we talk.

How do you think it's going to change our language practices in the future?

Yeah, it's this loop, right?

It's this unending funhouse mirror or feedback loop of our language.

We feed it, it feeds us back to us from like an aggregated data set.

Right.

So what are we losing?

Yeah, if our language practices are sort of...

undifferentiated.

We're losing the individual quirks or flair that can be in language or slang or intricacies of dialects.

Are we losing connection to each other?