Assistant Professor Zina Ward’s Work Discussed in Washington Post Opinion Piece

Large Language Models, widely used by AI-powered chatbots, tend to overuse certain words, such as ‘delve’, ‘intricate’, and ‘realm’. A recent opinion piece in the Washington Post discusses the work of Assistant Professor of Philosophy Zina Ward, in collaboration with Tom Juzek, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, explaining the overuse. 

To read the Washington Post article, click here: https://wapo.st/4mJSkQ4

The article by Professors Ward and Juzek can be found at this link:

Juzek, Tom. S and Zina B. Ward. Forthcoming. “Word Overuse and Alignment in Large Language Models: The Influence of Learning from Human Feedback.” Proceedings of the BIAS 2025 Workshop at ECML/PKDD 2025.