"I assume it's all fake/bots, even though in this case I know Codex growth is really strong and the trend here is real,"
"Real people have picked up quirks of LLM-speak, the Extremely Online crowd drifts together in very correlated ways, the hype cycle has a very 'it's so over/we're so back' extremism, optimization pressure from social platforms on juicing engagement and the related way that creator monetization works, other companies have astroturfed us so I'm extra sensitive to it, and a bunch more (including probably some bots)."
A Reddit thread about Codex appeared unusually positive and was assumed to be fake or bot-generated despite strong Codex growth. Multiple factors were cited: real users adopting LLM-like phrasing, tightly correlated behavior among extremely online communities, extreme hype cycles, social platform optimization that amplifies engagement, monetization incentives for creators, deliberate astroturfing by competitors, and the presence of bots. Researchers analyzed millions of emails, essays, and other texts plus hundreds of thousands of videos and podcasts and detected a surge of ChatGPT-influenced vocabulary and changes in how people write and speak.
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