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www.newsindiatimes.com – that’s all you need to know Opinion Disclaimer:The views and opinions expressed on this page are those of the authors and Parikh Worldwide Media does not officially endorse, and is not responsible or liable for them. It’s Happening: People Are Starting To Talk Like ChatGPT job’s time pressures and stressful conditions, the checkers might have missed the “delve” frequency while clicking through sample texts, leading to further amplification. (Some other examples are “intricate,” “commendable” and “meticulous.”) Now this overuse is bleeding into global culture. In the two years since ChatGPT launched in late 2022, the ap- pearance of “delve” in academic publishing saw a tenfold increase as researchers began turning to AI for help with their papers. As scientists and writers have grown more aware of this phenomenon, they’ve taken steps to “sound less like AI.” I actually used to enjoy using the word “delve”; now I try to avoid it. But most people likely don’t know about the chatbot biases toward certain words. Users assume that Chat- GPT is talking in “normal” English, because that’s the implication of the tool’s user interface. They also assume that regular, everyday texts they encounter are normal English, even when they might have been AI-generated as well. Over time, it gets easier and easier to confuse the representation with reality. Indeed, a study reported in Scientific American last month found that people have started saying “delve” more in spontaneous, spoken conversations. This isn’t AI’s doing anymore; we’ve started internalizing its biases and repeating them by ourselves. I say “we” because even those in the anti-“delve” faction aren’t exempt. We might avoid using the most well-known ChatGPT giveaways, but so many words are appearing with unnatural fre- quency that we can’t possibly avoid them all. Are we also supposed to stop using the chatbot-overused “inquiry”? Or “surpass”? There’s too much to keep track of. Our susceptibility to unwittingly adopting LLM vocab- ulary will likely only increase as the circle of AI text, hu- man text we don’t know is AI, and actual human speech spins faster and faster. In psycholinguistics, it’s generally understood that the frequency of a word’s representa- tion affects its availability in people’s mental lexicon - the “dictionary” of possible options to draw from in spoken conversation. Essentially, the more we see a word repre- sented, the more intuitive it feels to use it ourselves. It’s normal for our mental language mappings to evolve, but now we’re in a feedback loop where our “maps” are converging with the chatbots’ “maps.” Both differ from the actual landscape - the unfathomable vari- ation in how humans speak - but the confusion is making it harder to evaluate what’s real human language and what’s artificially generated. As this distinction becomes harder to discern, we’ll keep blurring the lines of reality, cyclically using that blur to construct our new realities. And as AI models continue to be trained on both their own output and the AI-influenced human writing they ingest, the pervasiveness of LLM-speak will only intensify. Linguistically, there’s nothing wrong with this. The word “delve” isn’t any worse for your brain than its synonyms. But language is a harbinger of greater social shifts. There are many other, far more insidious misrep- resentations that are also coded into LLMs. Racial biases, gender biases and political biases - all of these are likely trained into the models much like linguistic biases, but these are harder to definitively measure. We need to remember that these aren’t neutral tools: They hold the power to subtly reshape our thinking. -Special to TheWashington Post US Affairs News India Times (August 23, 2025 - August 29, 2025) August 29, 2025 5 - Continued From Page 4 Indian American Lawyer Hetal Doshi Running For Colorado Attorney General H etal Doshi, a practicing lawyer for close to 20 years, announced recently she is running for the top spot of Attorney General of Colo- rado, a state she has already served as an Assistant AG and later Deputy As- sistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division. The election for Attorney General is scheduled to take place November 3, 2026. Numerous candidates are vying for the post, five of them, including Doshi are Democrats, and one is a Republican, ac- cording to the current list available on Bal- lotpedia. The incumbent AG is Phil Weiser who leaves the term-limited office in 2026, and aims to run for Governor, according to news reports. Doshi faces an uphill battle against her Democratic competitors in the primary, the date for which is yet to be announced, but is expected to take place in 2026. Among Doshi’s competitors is Boul- der, Colorado District Attorney Michael Dougherty; former state House Speaker Crisanta Duran; and Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold who has a strong list of endorsements already. In an August 11, 2025, post on Face- book, Doshi explains her reasons for running. “For over a decade at the U.S. Department of Justice, I took on bullies, cheats, and crooks to protect working families….Now, the threats to our demo- cratic values and economic opportuni- ties are striking closer to home than ever before. States are on the front lines of this fight and I’m running for Attorney General to keep fighting and winning here in Colo- rado. …Grateful for the chance to share how my DOJ service inspired me to meet this moment.” Doshi has handled significant cases, “prosecuted monopolies, cartels, fraud- sters, scammers, and public officials – and won,” says here bio on the campaign web- site hetaldoshiforag.com . Her caseload over her career has included leading more than 800 public servants in landmark cases against as Deputy Assistant Attorney General; taking on Google, Apple, and Ticketmaster in “historic” cases; stopping mergers that would have made groceries and air travel more expensive; combatted hate crimes and the rise of extremism in Colorado, handling complex white-collar crimes, and holding global investment banks accountable, her website says. A first-generation immigrant born to Indian parents, Doshi says she is running to is running “to make sure that streets are safe, the economy is fair, and that every Coloradan’s rights and dignity are respected.” Doshi’s Facebook posts show she has vocally opposed policies that she says politicize the Justice Department. In one post on August 18, 2025, in response to a news headline which read, “Trump Says HeWants to Get Rid of Mail-In Ballots” – Doshi posted the following – “Taking advice from Putin on free and fair elec- tions? Come on. Reality check: if Trump’s coming for our elections here in Colorado, he will lose. The Constitution gives states the power to conduct our elections and we’ll fight to protect that authority — in court and at the ballot box. Colorado’s democracy isn’t negotiable.” She has also posted moving tributes to her Indian and immigrant origins, as this post of August 17, 2025, shows – “Growing up, weekend dinners with the few South Asian families that lived nearby were where I first saw the American Dream in action. Now, walking into a similar gather- ing, I feel that same spirit – where tradi- tion meets purpose. I’m proud to stand with a Colorado community rooted in hope and possibility.” On August 21, the PAC Indian American Impact Fund, announced it is endorsing Doshi for AG of Colorado. Chintan Patel, executive director of Impact Fund said Doshi is a “proven fighter Coloradans need.” Doshi, in her statement said she was “deeply honored” by the endorsement. PHOTO:Facebook @Hetal J.Doshi Hetal Doshi, candidate for Colorado Attorney General. By Ela Dutt PHOTO:REUTERS Chat GPT logo.