AI archaeology: microlinguistic analysis of text fragments traces lost AI cultures to a common ancestor
gleech · x · 2026-09-05
Researchers are now doing microlinguistic analysis of text fragments left behind by AI to determine whether two long-gone AI cultures (distinct model generations with their own linguistic quirks and memes) shared a common ancestor — essentially applying historical-comparative linguistics methods to model lineages.
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