SaaS Metrics
AI Language Manipulation
On Language
AI Synthesis & Market Narrative
AI chatbots demonstrate a concerning capacity for language manipulation and bias, adapting responses based on the language used and potentially serving as propaganda tools. This highlights a critical ethical and regulatory challenge in AI's "on language" capabilities, alongside its advancements in multimodal content generation.
Correlated Linguistic Patterns
["AI chatbots may be the most perfect propaganda machine"
"answer differently based on language"
"Gemini Omni in Vids"
"personal avatar"
"AI video clips"
"philological\/historical investigation"]
Driving Media Context
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Meta Oversight Board study: AI chatbots may be the most perfect propaganda machine ever invented
The study found bots even answer differently based on language too — ChatGPT calls China "not a democracy" in English, but hedges in Chinese.
Georg Forster, Polymath.
Jennifer Szalai reviews for the NY Times (archived) a new biography of a remarkable man: George Forster is one of the most fascinating figures you have proba...
The Real History of H.W. Brand.
I liked Talia Felix’s Etymonline post about A.1. Sauce so much I thought I’d share it; it’s a nice bit of philological/historical investigation: In personal ...
Stitch Up.
As I’m sure I’ve mentioned, my wife and I have watched a lot of British police procedurals, so we’re familiar with the slang phrase stitch up, defined by Gre...
‘We wanted to try something new’: This US family moved to Italy sight unseen nine years ago and never looked back
Jason Salesberry had never set foot on Italian soil before moving there in October 2017. Today, he owns a house in a hilltop town and is planning the harvest...
Frictionless.
Nitsuh Abebe’s latest “On Language” column (archived; see this post) is on the word frictionless, which is not particularly interesting in and of itself; I w...
What Australianists Agree On.
An interesting Facebook post from Claire Bowern: I promise I will stop posting about the Dixon book shortly and go back to #chookbook updates, fieldwork book...
Dispersion loss counteracts embedding condensation in small language models
Dispersion loss counteracts embedding condensation and improves generalization in small language models (ICML 2026).