If you've requested automated service in Spanish when you call the Washington state Department of Licensing, you get an AI-generated voice speaking English with a Spanish accent. Here's the story from @AssociatedPress, including a recording.
If you've requested automated service in Spanish when you call the Washington state Department of Licensing, you get an AI-generated voice speaking English with a Spanish accent. Here's the story from @AssociatedPress, including a recording.
Nightmare: Why #LLMs kill author's skills: "What began as a jagged, precise Romanesque structure of stone is eroded into a polished, Baroque plastic shell: it looks "clean" to the casual eye, but its structural integrity – its "ciccia" – has been ablated to favor a hollow, frictionless aesthetic. We are building a world on a hollowed-out syntax that has suffered semantic ablation" https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/
#authors #writing #writerslife #editing #writersCommunity #LLM #genAI #semantics #language
Nightmare: Why #LLMs kill author's skills: "What began as a jagged, precise Romanesque structure of stone is eroded into a polished, Baroque plastic shell: it looks "clean" to the casual eye, but its structural integrity – its "ciccia" – has been ablated to favor a hollow, frictionless aesthetic. We are building a world on a hollowed-out syntax that has suffered semantic ablation" https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/
#authors #writing #writerslife #editing #writersCommunity #LLM #genAI #semantics #language
Here's an interesting visualisation of the changing political rhetoric in the House of Commons & its swing to the normalisation of more extreme right wing views....
It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post. Read it and notice where you start to struggle. Notice where you give up entirely.
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
