AI is making us sound the same—and killing our personal expression

More than a third of all internet web pages published since ChatGPT’s November 2022 launch were authored by AI, according to the Pew Research Center. And the writing is becoming simpler than ever. That flood of AI-generated language may also be changing the way humans write. A new paper in Nature Human Behavior finds that LLMs can push people’s writing toward a narrower set of linguistic norms, reducing stylistic diversity and obscuring some of the identity signals embedded in our words. Three…