Forcing Simplified English Makes ChatGPT Noticeably Dumber, Experiment Shows

A controlled experiment found that forcing ChatGPT to respond in ASD-STE100 simplified technical English improves readability but significantly degrades performance across tasks like causal diagnosis and evidence judgment, reducing source citations and reasoning quality.

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