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"Adolescence has sparked fears over teen slang – but #emoji don’t cause radicalisation" https://theconversation.com/adolescenc

"Sprach-Professor hält High-School-Rede in Gen Alpha Slang" https://www.langweiledich.net/sprach-professor-haelt-high-school-rede-in-gen-alpha-slang/

i wonder if brainrot humor worked the same way back before the internet existed. like did victorian era youth make themselves laugh by inserting vulgar slang or opium and alcohol or women dressing like men or charles darwin or edgy jack the ripper references into phrases coined within a children's author / humorist's "nonsense book" or whatever trashy pulp magazines were popular

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05660 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Not Like Us, Hunty: Measuring Perceptions and Behavioral Effects of Minoritized Anthropomorphic Cues in LLMs
As large language models (LLMs) increasingly adapt and personalize to diverse sets of users, there is an increased risk of systems appropriating sociolects, i.e., language styles or dialects that are associated with specific minoritized lived experiences (e.g., African American English, Queer slang). In this work, we examine whether sociolect usage by an LLM agent affects user reliance on its outputs and user perception (satisfaction, frustration, trust, and social presence). We designed and co…