Large language models homogenizing effect on human expression and thought
Cognitive diversity in language, perspective, and reasoning is not only vital to human creativity and problem-solving but also carries rich personal and cultural information.
Large language models (LLMs) are now widely used across writing, ideation, and decision-making tasks.
By mirroring dominant patterns, LLMs promote stylistic and conceptual homogenization while downplaying alternative voices.
With the growing prevalence of LLMs across fields and in shaping communication, studies have found that they are influencing and homogenizing people’s language, perspectives, and reasoning.
This homogenization arises not only from biases in the training corpora but is also amplified through the training process itself, favoring patterns that are frequent and easily generalizable while smoothing over minority representations.
https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(26)00003-3
