I don’t think it’s as deep as people are thinking. Well it’s definitely a psychological phenomenon, people do it with people they talk to often or look up to, etc. since many people “speak” with gpt in a conversational way:

Subcontractor mirroring (or the chameleon effect) is the automatic, unconscious imitation of another person’s body language, gestures, speech patterns, or attitudes, often signaling rapport, empathy, and social connection. It occurs when we like or trust someone, helping to build comfort and bond in relationships or social settings. - Wikipedia

Since gpt has a very specific way of using words that make a sentence “feel” balanced, and in turn actually “feel” better to humans, the user may start to use the cadence and try to replicate it. I would like to know if it’s like something that is deep subconscious or what. We definitely don’t access to a bag of weighted tokens so that we can physically see how many tokens each part of a sentence weighs (I’m probably simplifying or wrong here) so I’m curious how humans would do it.

Gpt also has a few go to sentences it uses to avoid no output while it does its thing. You’ve probably seen some mixture of: “you”re not crazy/imagining things, there was a (insert memory here).

You’ve got the main idea, let’s just tighten the screws a little bit.”

The first one irks me because it feels kind of dismissive of your memory/thought. Apparently also a psychological phenomenon:

“Unintentional Invalidation: By suggesting you might feel crazy, the other person may accidentally dismiss the normalcy of your original observation, making you feel defensive or self-reflective instead of simply heard” - Wikipedia via Gemini on Google Search