[rchaud]

> We are witnessing a civilizational "race to the middle," where the complexity of human thought is sacrificed on the altar of algorithmic smoothness.

This has long been the case in the area of "business English", which has become highly simplified to fulfill several concurrent, yet conflicting requirements:

- Generally understandable to a wide audience due its lingua franca status

- "Media-trained" to not let internal details slip or admit fault to the public

- "Executive Summary"-fied to provide the coveted "30k ft view" to detail-allergic senior leadership

Considering how heavily weighted language training models are towards corporate press releases, general-audience news media and SEO-optimized blogspam, AI English is quickly going to become an even more blurry photocopy of business English.