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the ’ and — characters are kinda giveaways, besides the advertising feel of the text, maybe if they were using gpt it was as a translation aide?

npsomaratna 2y ago
Correct punctuation marks, you mean? Humans use them too, you know. I've used the em dash (—) and opening/closing single quote characters (‘’) ever since I read Butterick's Practical Typography.
- globalnode 2y ago
  fair point, its just not common, thats why i said 'kinda' giveaways.
- Cthulhu_ 2y ago
  Do you have keys on your keyboard for those or do you have a key combo or browser addon for them? I tend to stick to basic ascii characters for the most part myself... but part of that is ignorance. I have trouble remembering the euro sign combo on Mac.
hackernews1134 2y ago
I use both quite often. The apostrophe from a young age and the em-dash from my locally hosted alternative to grammarly which auto-corrects for me - making it easy to use as it doesn’t exist on my keyboard as a built-in. If it existed on my keyboard, I would use it by default. (Noticeably absent is the em-dash in this message because my grammarly alternative is a chrome extension and I’m currently responding from my mobile device that does not have it.)
- throwing_away 2y ago
  I think you meant to use an "en-dash" there -- between "me" and "making". This whole thing is frustrating because I know all of these language models were trained on reddit and I was an early and frequent commenter. So a lot of my style is also the bot's style.
  - oneeyedpigeon 2y ago
    I think they meant to use an em-dash, which is this: —. An en-dash is typically used for ranges, e.g. 20–30 miles per hour.
  - hackernews1134 2y ago
    Yes I did; an in the second paragraph of my post I explain why I didn’t in this instance.
- rounce 2y ago
  What is the self-hosted grammarly alternative you use?
  - hackernews1134 2y ago
    It is called languagetool
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hyko 2y ago
I use em dashes—chiefly to express parenthetical thoughts—all the time. Sadly, there’s no foolproof system for identifying machine-generated text. Happily, it means one less thing to worry about.
pindab0ter 2y ago
I often use ’ and –. What's wrong with that?

npsomaratna 2y ago

Correct punctuation marks, you mean? Humans use them too, you know. I've used the em dash (—) and opening/closing single quote characters (‘’) ever since I read Butterick's Practical Typography.

globalnode 2y ago
fair point, its just not common, thats why i said 'kinda' giveaways.
Cthulhu_ 2y ago
Do you have keys on your keyboard for those or do you have a key combo or browser addon for them? I tend to stick to basic ascii characters for the most part myself... but part of that is ignorance. I have trouble remembering the euro sign combo on Mac.

hackernews1134 2y ago

I use both quite often. The apostrophe from a young age and the em-dash from my locally hosted alternative to grammarly which auto-corrects for me - making it easy to use as it doesn’t exist on my keyboard as a built-in. If it existed on my keyboard, I would use it by default. (Noticeably absent is the em-dash in this message because my grammarly alternative is a chrome extension and I’m currently responding from my mobile device that does not have it.)

throwing_away 2y ago
I think you meant to use an "en-dash" there -- between "me" and "making". This whole thing is frustrating because I know all of these language models were trained on reddit and I was an early and frequent commenter. So a lot of my style is also the bot's style.
- oneeyedpigeon 2y ago
  I think they meant to use an em-dash, which is this: —. An en-dash is typically used for ranges, e.g. 20–30 miles per hour.
- hackernews1134 2y ago
  Yes I did; an in the second paragraph of my post I explain why I didn’t in this instance.
rounce 2y ago
What is the self-hosted grammarly alternative you use?
- hackernews1134 2y ago
  It is called languagetool

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hyko 2y ago

I use em dashes—chiefly to express parenthetical thoughts—all the time. Sadly, there’s no foolproof system for identifying machine-generated text. Happily, it means one less thing to worry about.

pindab0ter 2y ago

I often use ’ and –. What's wrong with that?