Neil Freiman
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
After analyzing 280,000 YouTube videos from academic channels, this study found that speakers use words like
meticulous, delve, realm, and adept, all words that often show up in ChatGPT outputs 51% more frequently than they did in the three years prior.
According to the lead author, using words like delve more is a sign that we've internalized this virtual vocabulary into daily communication.
But not only is our vocab starting to mimic ChatGPT, so is the way we talk, making our speech longer, more structured, and with less emotional expression,
similar to what we read when interacting with the chat bot.
As one scientist at the Max Planck Institute put it, Delve is only the tip of the iceberg.
And it's infiltrated work.
And maybe this was a Toby's trends.
I remember we definitely talked about it.
The concept of work slop, a study in the Harvard Business Review found that more than 40 percent of U.S.
based employees reported receiving AI generated content that, quote, masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task, which they considered work slop.
They're calling it destroying productivity.
So AI, as we're seeing in our vocabulary, in the way we structure our sentences is
and in the way we work has infiltrated our daily lives here more than three years now after the release of ChatGPZ.
And the number one thing is actually the door handle.
So Tesla pioneered the concept of the electric door handle because, of course, we had to reinvent the door handle.
It wasn't just it was too simple.
Just, you know, the the traditional door handle complaints to the U.S.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about doors across all car models, not just including Tesla, jumped 65 percent in 2024.
from the year prior, and a separate report from J.D.