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Moving toward the 'LinkedIn average': Studies find AI is reshaping language | The Jerusalem Post

Jpost · · 482 words · By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
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What to know about AI Impact on Linguistics

A new survey finds that 32% of small businesses now use artificial intelligence for outreach and customer service, while 16% of individuals rely on large language models for social media or general communication.

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What happened

A new survey finds that 32% of small businesses now use artificial intelligence for outreach and customer service, while 16% of individuals rely on large language models for social media or general communication.

Why it matters

The findings amplify concerns that AI has moved from a tool of convenience to a force reshaping everyday expression.

Common ground

As models become a default aid for drafting emails, posts, and promotional copy, researchers and linguists say a “perfect,” predictable style is spreading across public and private communication.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 5 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “16% of individuals rely on large language models for social media or general communication”
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While the evidence discusses the use of LLMs for social media and communication generally, none of the provided sources mention the specific statistic that '16% of individuals' rely on them for these purposes.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gemini is a family of multimodal large language models (LLMs) developed by Google DeepMind, and the successor to LaMDA and PaLM 2. Comprising Gemini Pro, Gemini Deep Think, Gemini Flash, and Gemini Fl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(language_model)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A large language model (LLM) is a neural network trained on a vast amount of text for natural language processing tasks, especially language generation. LLMs can generate, summarize, translate and par…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Llama ("Large Language Model Meta AI" serving as a backronym) is a family of large language models (LLMs) released by Meta AI starting in February 2023. Llama models come in different sizes, ranging f…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llama_(language_model)
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Claim 2: “researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development have found that words commonly favored by these systems—such as “delve,” “meticulous,” “boast,” and “comprehend”—are appearing more frequently in everyday conversation”
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Three independent web sources confirm that researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development found that AI-favored words like 'delve', 'meticulous', 'boast', and 'comprehend' are appearing more frequently in everyday conversation.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Max Planck Institutes are research institutions operated by the Max Planck Society. There are over 80 institutes. Most of them are located in Germany, although there are other locations in other Europ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Max_Planck_Institutes
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung) (MPIB) is a social science research organization. Located in Berlin, it is one of over 80 institutions run by…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck_Institute_for_Human…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (German: Max-Planck-Institut für Geoanthropologie) is a research institute of the Max Planck Society dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the interac…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck_Institute_of_Geoant…
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Claim 3: “Studies from the University of Southern California report a sharp decline in stylistic diversity in scientific papers, news writing, and social media posts following the emergence of AI-based tools like ChatGPT”
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The evidence provided for this claim consists of irrelevant search results about universities in South Africa and Kenya, and a Wikipedia entry about Ashish Vaswani. There is no evidence in the provided text regarding a USC study on stylistic diversity decline.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ashish Vaswani (born 1986) is an Indian computer scientist. Vaswani conducted research at Google Brain and, earlier in his career, was affiliated with the Information Sciences Institute at the Univers…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashish_Vaswani
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In the field of artificial intelligence (AI), a hallucination or artificial hallucination (also called bullshitting, confabulation, or delusion) is a response generated by AI that contains false or mi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI Global, LLC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization consisting of a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) and a nonprofit foundation, headquartered in San Franci…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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Claim 4: “Emily Bender, a linguist at the University of Washington”
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Multiple independent web sources explicitly identify Emily Bender as a computational linguist and professor at the University of Washington.
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web search NEUTRAL — And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.Bender is a computational linguist at the University of Washington. She published the paper in 2020 with fello…
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intell…
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web search NEUTRAL — Emily Bender (b. 1973) is a computational linguist at the University of Washington who has made foundational contributions to multilingual grammar engineering, linguistic annotation, and the critical …
https://www.computationallinguistics.com/Emily_Bender
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web search NEUTRAL — A Linguist with a Mission Emily M. Bender, a professor at the University of Washington, doesn’t consider herself an AI researcher—but her incisive critiques of artificial intelligence have positioned …
https://theleadboard.org/emily/
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Claim 5: “A new survey finds that 32% of small businesses now use artificial intelligence for outreach and customer service”
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The provided evidence mentions that '68% of U.S. small businesses now use AI regularly' and 'Half of small businesses... already use artificial intelligence', but none of the sources specifically mention the '32%' figure for outreach and customer service. The evidence contradicts the specific percentage provided in the claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — .ai is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is administered by the government of Anguilla. It is a popular domain hack wit…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — AI commonly refers to artificial intelligence, which is intelligence demonstrated by machines. Ai, ai, a.i, A.I or AI may also refer to:
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and dec…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
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