AI chatbots and “human” language; do words actually mean anything coming from a large language model?

Is there any humanity in the words/text that come from large language models (LLM) and AI? ‘The most astonishing thing about ChatGPT and every subsequent AI chatbot has always been that these programs are the first nonhumans to be fluent in our language. That simple fact is also, as Deb Roy argues in an essay in The Atlantic, among the most alarming things about these…

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More than half of new articles on the internet are being written by AI – is human writing headed for extinction?

Francesco Agnellini, Binghamton University, State University of New York (from The Conversation) The line between human and machine authorship is blurring, particularly as it’s become increasingly difficult to tell whether something was written by a person or AI. Now, in what may seem like a tipping point, the digital marketing firm Graphite recently published a study showing that more than 50% of articles on the…

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AI and Large Language Models: shortcomings and mistakes

Large language models still struggle to tell fact from opinion “Large language models (LLMs) may not reliably acknowledge a user’s incorrect beliefs … The findings highlight the need for careful use of LLM outputs in high-stakes decisions in areas such as medicine, law, and science, particularly when belief or opinions are contrasted with facts.” (from TechXplore, November 4, 2025) Go to the source: *Suzgun, M.,…

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