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October 13, 2025

AI and the New Hegemony of Language: A Warning Against Digital Imperialism

Olasunkanmi Arowolo

Researcher, Lecturer, Coach, and Mentor in Journalism.

Large language models (LLMs) are trained on vast datasets dominated by American content. This includes news outlets, academic texts, entertainment media, and online forums. As a result, the English that emerges in AI systems is overwhelmingly American in tone, spelling, idiom, and punctuation.

As first seen on Opinion Nigeria Artificial Intelligence is often presented as a neutral force, a tool that brings efficiency, knowledge, and connectivity, but the reality is far more complex. AI is never built in a vacuum. It carries within it the assumptions, biases, and cultural orientations...

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