Operation Waffles: AI-Mediated Lexical Drift and Distributed Framing Effects
Operation Waffles proposes a harmless proof-of-concept for studying whether large language models can introduce measurable lexical drift into human language. The paper suggests using an innocuous tracer term—“waffles”—to test whether small model-level preferences for particular words, metaphors, or phrasings survive into human revisions, later writing, and broader discourse.