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AI Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts (June 2025):
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/ai-is-homogenizing-our-thoughts
"With the #LLM “you have no divergent opinions being generated,” Kosmyna said. She continued, “Average everything everywhere all at once—that’s kind of what we’re looking at here.”
#AI is a technology of averages: [ #LLMs] are trained to spot patterns across vast tracts of data; the answers they produce tend toward consensus, both in the quality of the writing [...] and in the calibre of the ideas."
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