How LLMs Distort Our Written Language

ArXi:2603.18161v1 Announce Type: cross Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we nstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, but also consistently alter the intended meaning. First, we conduct a human user study to understand how people actually interact with LLMs when using them for writing. Our findings reveal that extensive LLM use led to a nearly 70% increase in essays that remained neutral in answering the topic question.