People are starting to sound like AI, research shows

Machine learning - or machine teaching? Our everyday speech is increasingly being influenced by AI chatbots, which have a preference for certain words and phrases that are now rubbing off on us, researchers say. — Photo: Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/dpa

BERLIN: Artificial intelligence chatbots have largely been 'trained' by being fed reams of information from the internet, some of it the outcome of years of hard work by some of the world's leading doers and thinkers.

But now it seems that it is people – including university lecturers and others described as intellectuals – who are being trained by AI, even if unwittingly.