Like it or not, AI will erase the British spellings in Orthopedics forever.
The British spelling "orthopaedics," with its elegant nod to Greek roots via the "ae" digraph, is on the brink of extinction—and AI is to blame.
As American English dominates the vast training datasets powering artificial intelligence, the streamlined "orthopedics" is poised to take over entirely.
This goes for all four of the major AI players today. American centric English training.
OpenAI's ChatGPTGoogle's GeminixAI's GrokAnthropic's Claude
The "ae" in "orthopaedics," derived from "orthos" (straight) and "...