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georgeburdelltoday at 5:18 AM3 repliesview on HN

Some of the non native English speakers on my team have started to use “blast radius” and “shape of” in the course of casual conversation. It’s unnerving.


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snomantoday at 5:47 AM

To some extent, the AI may have adopted some of the expressions because they were in its training corpus enough (ie. People used these expressions before). Might be attributable to Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon instead of people copying AI.

mdp2021today at 6:05 AM

> blast radius

The expression makes sense (a not dissimilar "trickle down" got accepted...). But used like in the text above, "the blast radius of your reduced productivity", it better be satire.

karmakurtisaanitoday at 6:46 AM

> “blast radius”

This sounds cool, will start using it. Thanks!