This may not seem initially relevant, but has anyone noticed people's spelling and grammar has become significantly worse in the past few years?
What I've particularly noticed are preposition errors - that's words like "before", "behind", "above". They are often missing or the wrong ones used.
And also the missing of transition words, like "the", "and", "although" and "because", or sometimes the word is duplicated, like "the the".
What's interesting is that these are the errors that small children make when learning to talk - they miss out the prepositions or get them wrong/get them in the wrong places.
This is particularly surprising given that prerty much all computers have a spellchecker, including phones.
This forum seems relatively immune, but my colleagues' spelling is now awful, and news articles are even worse - if anything, it's evidence the articles are not actually AI-written, as I'd expect the spelling to be better!
Where I'm going with this is that I think people's brains have literally been damaged in an indirectly measurable way over the past few years (I won't speculateon the cause) - look up the areas of the brain associated with language and writing, then look up what other functions those areas of the brain have...
An Inappropriate Preposition
What I've particularly noticed are preposition errors - that's words like "before", "behind", "above". They are often missing or the wrong ones used.
And also the missing of transition words, like "the", "and", "although" and "because", or sometimes the word is duplicated, like "the the".
What's interesting is that these are the errors that small children make when learning to talk - they miss out the prepositions or get them wrong/get them in the wrong places.
This is particularly surprising given that prerty much all computers have a spellchecker, including phones.
This forum seems relatively immune, but my colleagues' spelling is now awful, and news articles are even worse - if anything, it's evidence the articles are not actually AI-written, as I'd expect the spelling to be better!
Where I'm going with this is that I think people's brains have literally been damaged in an indirectly measurable way over the past few years (I won't speculateon the cause) - look up the areas of the brain associated with language and writing, then look up what other functions those areas of the brain have...