The Shrinking Landscape of Linguistic Diversity in the Age of Large Language Models — mentioned by mmooss

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 05:19:37 GMT

The opening paragraph of the (preprint) paper is much more inspired than the abstract: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11266 "We're getting the language into its final shape- the shape it's going to have when nobody speaks anything else." These words come from George Orwell's 1984 [1, p.69], a novel in which a government gradually constrains the language of its people, narrow-ing vocabulary and stripping away the nuances and variations through which different individuals express themselves until what remains is a single uniform language shared by all, a deliberate effort to narrow the range of…

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The Shrinking Landscape of Linguistic Diversity in the Age of Large Language Models — mentioned by vonunov

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:12:32 GMT

[pdf] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.11266?

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The Shrinking Landscape of Linguistic Diversity in the Age of Large Language Models — mentioned by mmooss

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