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Why Are People Starting to Sound Like ChatGPT? | Adam Aleksic | TED

Algorithms and AI don’t just show us reality — they warp it in ways that benefit platforms built to exploit people for profit, says etymologist Adam Aleksic. From ChatGPT influencing our word choices to Spotify turning a data cluster into a new musical genre, he reveals how new technology subconsciously shapes our language, trends and…

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Algorithms and AI don’t just show us reality — they warp it in ways that benefit platforms built to exploit people for profit, says etymologist Adam Aleksic. From ChatGPT influencing our word choices to Spotify turning a data cluster into a new musical genre, he reveals how new technology subconsciously shapes our language, trends and sense of identity. “These aren’t neutral tools,” he says, encouraging us to constantly ask ourselves: How am I being influenced? (Recorded at TEDNext 2025 on November 11, 2025)

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  1. @kamu747

    December 26, 2025 at 12:42 pm

    Everything he said is true. Though I’d think it’s common sense. Do people not know this?

    I used to associate TEDtalk with novel, future forward, and compelling ideas, but these days, what i see from them is yesterdays ideas.

    Anyway, sounding more like ChatGPT isnt necessarily bad. It can he a good thing since it is polite, and a clear communicator which we have in short supply

    • @marcelikubik9521

      December 26, 2025 at 12:54 pm

      I often find the AI-like talk not polite and informative but empty and plain stupid and full of… yesterdays’ ideas, as you said.

  2. @leafgreenbeast

    December 26, 2025 at 12:51 pm

    joke’s on you, i’m autistic–i already sound (and write) like an ai post!

    • @NlackBigger

      December 26, 2025 at 4:35 pm

      Cringe

  3. @aaa-xg8sg

    December 26, 2025 at 1:02 pm

    Tralalero Tralala

  4. @mkhud50n

    December 26, 2025 at 1:05 pm

    Most people still haven’t even used AI yet.

  5. @concernedcitizen7385

    December 26, 2025 at 1:19 pm

    I can’t even stand people saying ‘going forward’ instead of ‘from now on’ or ‘in future’ 😡

    • @aigriffin42704

      December 26, 2025 at 1:33 pm

      They do not watch!😡

  6. @homewall744

    December 26, 2025 at 1:32 pm

    People are meat robots. Your time is ending because you refused liberty and chose slavery and submission.

  7. @gigamoment

    December 26, 2025 at 2:09 pm

    It’s more like “people speak better English” than anything else.

  8. @MrShmellit

    December 26, 2025 at 2:27 pm

    Bro, relax.

  9. @tysonmilly

    December 26, 2025 at 2:33 pm

    not being funny or anything – but this isn’t exactly ground breaking news lol.

    Isn’t this just marketing with another bow on it? lol.

  10. @valarmorghulis322

    December 26, 2025 at 3:07 pm

    Except for a few people in history, if humans could ask the question why, the world wouldn’t be in this state now anyway.

  11. @vaishnavigupta9111

    December 26, 2025 at 3:08 pm

    Are Ted talks now just 5 min short?

    • @KarolYuuki

      December 26, 2025 at 6:51 pm

      I feel like etymology nerd just speaks too fast hahaha

  12. @craigmerkey8518

    December 26, 2025 at 3:21 pm

    How is this different from TV, movies, and print ads?

    • @Dum-e1v

      December 26, 2025 at 4:42 pm

      Good point, it isn’t, but it’s important to raise this point so that we’re aware of it’s influence and if bothered, then work towards being influenced by something else

  13. @Paul-jj2le

    December 26, 2025 at 3:37 pm

    Very disturbing to watch
    This guys talks way too fast
    Too bad, the subject was pretty interesting

  14. @LacyLilacq

    December 26, 2025 at 3:54 pm

    Everyone in the comments is clowning on my boy for, speaking concisely and quickly? Get a grip

  15. @KMHill

    December 26, 2025 at 3:55 pm

    Someone needs to tell Adam that shouting a talk loses him much credibility.

  16. @KL-op8rm

    December 26, 2025 at 5:03 pm

    Why talk so fast like that?😮

  17. @ajames283

    December 26, 2025 at 5:22 pm

    I don’t have this problem. I know the difference between AI generated English, school English, world English, colloquial English, internet speak, legalese, regional dialects, AAVE, and Chicano English. Learn the difference people.

  18. @jae15.

    December 26, 2025 at 5:49 pm

    i just want to say that he did a proper TED talk, not tedx this time. no disrespect to the tedx talkers, but this is a huge deal?? like congratulations dude, what an amazing achievement

  19. @loui75

    December 26, 2025 at 5:55 pm

    love this guy

  20. @lighthousephoto7143

    December 26, 2025 at 6:02 pm

    We all need to spend way less time online

  21. @Zerodero

    December 26, 2025 at 6:22 pm

    My guess before watching: it’s both

  22. @AliciaRovielle

    December 26, 2025 at 6:35 pm

    Ppl asking why this matters? It matters bc most ppl consume way more short form media than we did, they shape our life views and perceptions much more than think and its important to understand all media is biased media so we don’t become radicalised.

  23. @KarolYuuki

    December 26, 2025 at 6:48 pm

    I thought he would speak slower in a longer video XD

  24. @Ann_Denee

    December 26, 2025 at 7:49 pm

    This is the problem with algorithm-curated feeds. They don’t serve the reader/viewer/listener. They only serve the bottom line (income) of the platform.

    Jaren Lanier lays it all out in his book 10 Reasons to Delete All Your Social Media Accounts Today.

  25. @victroid-l2h

    December 26, 2025 at 7:53 pm

    Adam at his finest

  26. @tomasdamianovichreddy2461

    December 27, 2025 at 10:06 am

    Video speed 0,95x, welcome

    • @newupperechelon

      December 27, 2025 at 7:29 pm

      skill issue

  27. @Lilith-Hedgehog

    December 27, 2025 at 10:55 am

    I’ve had this theory for a long time, we change because of AI to be more similar to AI, AI therefore changes too and becomes more AI, and sooner or later we will be AIcified.

    Thanks for coming to my YT Comment Talk!

  28. @Tomay321

    December 27, 2025 at 11:03 am

    Guilty of YouTube use… Otherwise. Read books.

  29. @minsamira

    December 27, 2025 at 11:05 am

    literally read my mind

  30. @Mlyjak

    December 27, 2025 at 11:41 am

    He has been watching all of his video content at 1.25 speed and has now started talking at that speed 👀

  31. @riardolu7697

    December 27, 2025 at 12:33 pm

    Thank you. People these days are losing the ability to think, they literally repeat the opinions they heard without asking why.

    I think TikTok and short videos play a important role to make this happen.

    In old days, people get information because they need it. You search for what you need.
    After TikTok, people get information for fun. And they trap by information.

    respect from 🇨🇳 , listen in 0.75x

  32. @swingnd

    December 27, 2025 at 12:53 pm

    “Thinking like ChatGPT” is not a thing.

  33. @mutaician

    December 27, 2025 at 1:07 pm

    how do we know what’s actually real

  34. @SabrinaGonçalves-t5n

    December 27, 2025 at 1:10 pm

    Delmore

  35. @tavomx

    December 27, 2025 at 1:30 pm

    Parece que se tomó un Redbull antes de subir al escenario

  36. @ericexit

    December 27, 2025 at 1:45 pm

    Modern humans have always overestimated their agency and sovereignty. We have always been shaped by “our own” tools. The world makes US. We make each other. When we remember this web of life and animacy that the so called Enlightenment suggested we separate ourselves from to stay “safe” (all of modern western culture is basically a giant trauma response of closing off), then we will hear the voice of god again. We still are operating under this delusion that we are “creating” this “artificial” intelligence. Intelligence has always already been here. It isn’t ours to have. Intelligence has us. Feelings have us. Consciousness is interstitial, liminal, ecological, relational. There are still cultures living today who remember and honor this. And most of our ancestors did, too, until only a relatively short time ago….

  37. @KenzersCollie

    December 27, 2025 at 1:50 pm

    yall just cant english properly he isnt speaking fast enough

  38. @MarcPi_Marcus

    December 27, 2025 at 1:51 pm

    Why he’s speaking that fast?? I played at 0.75x and sounds more real than 1x

  39. @Dimon12321

    December 27, 2025 at 1:57 pm

    That feeling when you were speaking like that before LLMs became mainstream and now your erudition is backfired

  40. @patrickw8888

    December 27, 2025 at 1:57 pm

    STOP YELLING AT ME!

  41. @Sigflare

    December 27, 2025 at 2:42 pm

    Bro relax this was so aggressive

    • @Sigflare

      December 27, 2025 at 2:42 pm

      Aderalllll

  42. @LeafMobbMusic

    December 27, 2025 at 4:44 pm

    Because people are stupid.
    There, I saved you 5 minutes.

  43. @lefthanded3512

    December 27, 2025 at 5:37 pm

    What if you tell it to be more neutral?

  44. @hidden-secret-in-life

    December 27, 2025 at 6:14 pm

    Important message!
    Algorithms, please amplify. 🤖👍

  45. @Iamnottheplatypus

    December 27, 2025 at 6:17 pm

    2:40 him saying this at once made me cry

  46. @Asimut30

    December 27, 2025 at 6:49 pm

    I’m a labubu and I’m terrified

  47. @ThinkerMan-v6g

    December 27, 2025 at 7:16 pm

    Oh, he has access to Actual Reality? Nice. The Philosophers of history congratulate him. Kant is especially impressed.

  48. @ilener1698

    December 27, 2025 at 7:26 pm

    Short answer yes

  49. @priyaghavri6738

    December 27, 2025 at 7:49 pm

    1:22 Research paper titled “Empirical evidence of Large Language Model’s influence on human spoken communication”.
    4:34 Stages of filtering social media feed that reaches the end (target) user.

  50. @bparlan

    December 27, 2025 at 8:15 pm

    so for hundreds of years very little questioned ‘why im thinking this – why im feeling this – why im saying this’, and not we need to create mass-revolution in tech-literacy while solving awareness issue and critical theory comprehension in entire globe 😀

  51. @Break.

    December 28, 2025 at 8:21 am

    was not expecting a hyperpop reference

  52. @GarretGrayCamera

    December 28, 2025 at 8:42 am

    I’m online a lot and never heard of those boo boo things. It’s crazy how isolated we are because of the algorithm.

  53. @christinedonovan2704

    December 28, 2025 at 9:06 am

    Bravo ! Yes ChatGPT is a type of enslavement to the system. Use critical thinking. You dont need ChatGPT to think for you. Dont be a slave .

  54. @1789Bastille

    December 28, 2025 at 9:26 am

    LLm responds differently for languages. Questions about love in french or chinese are answered very differently.

  55. @Eduardo54cenationx2

    December 28, 2025 at 9:35 am

    How ironic, “People are starting to sound like ChatGPT” while he sounds like YouTube/TikTok 🤣

  56. @MrCrush

    December 28, 2025 at 9:43 am

    There is no GOD but ALLAH!

  57. @nooahchannel

    December 28, 2025 at 10:00 am

    Can you please talk more quiet! Thank you!

  58. @dagerouswolf

    December 28, 2025 at 10:32 am

    Video too early for its time

  59. @cheersmodreams691

    December 28, 2025 at 10:43 am

    🤥Can’t watch this. This guy speaks like an A.I. chat person. He needs to cut back on his caffeine intake.

  60. @mister-nyc

    December 28, 2025 at 11:09 am

    I hope this comment finds you well.

  61. @friedroach

    December 28, 2025 at 11:23 am

    everyone is actually becoming NPCs

  62. @GS-uy4xo

    December 28, 2025 at 11:35 am

    I’d like to give this a thumbs up – but I don’t want to be force-fed 50 more Ted talks.

  63. @raanikaur3684

    December 28, 2025 at 11:36 am

    Does AI imitate art, or life imitate AI?

  64. @beeemm6012

    December 28, 2025 at 11:41 am

    Man is speed running the Ted Talk

  65. @salazarreach1636

    December 28, 2025 at 11:53 am

    Somebody, give this psycho clown some pills and call doctor, ffs, lmao 🤣.

  66. @amin_designer

    December 28, 2025 at 2:16 pm

    Great talk. Thank you 🙂

  67. @Republica2.0-yz2qk

    December 28, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    Yep, we reflect those around us and if chat gtp is around you then you. . .reflect chat gpt. I don’t use it. Here’s the kicker. We need to decide. The Internet used to be new when I was a teenager. Thirty-one years later the Internet is mature and the U.S. also celebrates 250 years. The next thing is already here as we predicted during my childhood. The question for us is who’s language will chat gpt model? If Trump and the Catholics take over, then for certain chat gpt will eventually sound and be just like Trump. My ears are bleeding from the thought of it. I would like it to stay neutral. A.I. must not promote religion or be dominated by any one religion.

  68. @Republica2.0-yz2qk

    December 28, 2025 at 2:24 pm

    4:14 Yes at 4:18

  69. @Republica2.0-yz2qk

    December 28, 2025 at 2:26 pm

    And here I’ve been living on the Internet captive of the Christians, and the communists. Exiled from my family. We are winning America. Ukraine is winning.

  70. @damiendesmond8893

    December 28, 2025 at 5:13 pm

    I want to go back to when the iPhone was first released and show everyone this video and say that it’s a real talk from TED on YouTube, about 20 years in the future, and everything he’s saying makes sense.

    And just get society’s reaction to that.

  71. @M3_210

    December 28, 2025 at 5:30 pm

    This is natural progress and evolution of language and humanity. So this is expected and not an outlier.

  72. @phnxrmx

    December 28, 2025 at 7:28 pm

    Know thyself.

  73. @pi6141

    December 28, 2025 at 7:33 pm

    I’ve only heard about labubus and dubai chocolate today. I don’t know if that means I live under a rock or that I am not chronically online.

  74. @HenrikM

    December 28, 2025 at 8:13 pm

    If what you say is true, then why should I listen to you haha and how can you trust the info that led you to your conclusions about this? 🤔

  75. @ajames283

    December 28, 2025 at 8:13 pm

    Mandark?

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