ChatGPT has hijacked our real world conversations

Since ChatGPT's 2022 release, humans are increasingly adopting AI's formal language patterns in everyday conversations. Florida State University researchers analyzed 22 million words from science podcasts, finding terms like "meticulous," "delve," and "underscore" appearing more frequently than their simpler alternatives, potentially creating a feedback loop that could accelerate linguistic evolution and homogenize how people express themselves.