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Reaction converging How LLMs Distort Our Written Language Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions
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Established Culture, work & education Development 10d ago
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Alpha School AI Chicago launch

Alpha School wants AI to teach a billion kids. Should it?

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Shannon Vallor Hypervisible Woodrow Hartzog Benjamin Riley Ben Williamson

“The most Betteridge’s Law headline to ever do it”

“Oh so you really know jack shit about kids, pedagogy, education… www.scientificamerican.com/article/alph...”

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Hypervisible : Oh so you really know jack shit about kids, pedagogy, education… www.scientificamerican.com/article/alph...
Hypervisible : This is so offensive I’m kinda speechless.
Hypervisible : Now Carl will tell us how schools are like McDonald’s 🤦🏿‍♂️
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Established Models & releases Research 4d ago
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LLMs distort written language paper

How LLMs Distort Our Written Language

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Eugene Vinitsky Ben Williamson Isaiah Bishop Jed Brown
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“Fantastic paper demonstrating how LLM editing is gradually distorting our writing and the way we think to write: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161”

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Eugene Vinitsky: Fantastic paper demonstrating how LLM editing is gradually distorting our writing and the way we think to write: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161
Eugene Vinitsky: Sitting in Marwa's fantastic PhD defense, trying my best not to just retweet all her papers
Isaiah Bishop: Fantastic paper demonstrating how LLM editing is gradually distorting our writing and the way we think to write: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161
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samuel mehr: I got a text from an academic who's sure the editorial rejection they received, from a v good journal that I also publish in and review for, is AI-written, or at least heavily AI-edited. I read the…
Ben Williamson: Awful. We have specific text in our invites to reviewers reminding them that it is unacceptable to feed unpublished manuscripts into commercial LLM platforms.
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