LLMs as the Internet's Immune System: Smoothing Anomalies and Stifling Innovation
tom_doerr · x · 2026-08-19
The author argues that LLMs are evolving into the internet's immune system, identifying and smoothing out linguistic anomalies and radical ideas to maintain statistical normality. This mechanism of rewarding plausibility over novelty is unconsciously training humans to think in safer, more average ways. We aren't just losing the ability to write weirdly; we're losing the cultural mutations that usually drive progress.
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