NLP researcher observes LLMs are changing the meaning of 'similarly'
yoavgo · x · 2026-11-07
NLP researcher Yoav Goldberg observes a trend: the word "similarly" is shifting meaning — no longer expressing similarity between things, but used as a LLM-style paragraph transition (e.g. "Similarly, Claude can tag salient events…" in Anthropic docs). A neat linguistic signal of how AI-generated text is reshaping human writing.
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