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Pretty sure that’s written with AI. The dash gives it away.
by Eikon 2y ago
Pretty sure that’s written with AI. The dash gives it away.
- acuozzo 2y agoNot OP, but… what? On Windows I have a trigger finger for Alt+0133, Alt+0150, and Alt+0151. I use proper ellipses, en–dash, and em—dash all the time.
- automatic6131 2y agoBeing aware of Alt character codes puts you in the top 1% of computer users for ability.
- kibwen 2y agoKnowing what a file is puts you in the top 1% of computer users for ability. What's your point?
- remote-dev 2y agoOn Linux (maybe only certain distros, not sure) the keys are different, but you can enable a Compose key and enable special character keybinds as well. For example on Mint en–dash is "<compose> <minus> <minus> <period>" and em—dash is "<compose> <minus> <minus> <minus>"
- blooalien 2y agoI do a similar thing on Linux with a feature called the "Compose Key". I press the compose key (caps-lock on my keyboard), and then the next couple of keypresses translate into the proper character. "a -> ä, ~n -> ñ, etc.
- dingaling 2y agoGood grief, memorising arcane key combos? Doesn't sound ready for the desktop!
- sim7c00 2y ago100%. if i type it much less eloquent ;D wrote a whole maze of words and had chatgpt untie it.
- eqvinox 2y agogreat, now I have to un-learn using 'proper' punctuation. It's AltGr+[-] (–) or AltGr+Shift+[-] (—) on my keyboard layout (linux, de-nodeadkeys) btw. AltGr+[,] is ·, AltGr+Shift+[,] is ×, AltGr+[.] is …, AltGr+[1] is ¹ [Compose][~][~] is ≈, [Compose][_][2] is ₂ (great for writing H₂O), [Compose][<][_] is ≤, etc. I use all of these, and more, guess I'm an AI now :( To be fair I intentionally use — incorrectly by putting spaces around it, just because I hate how it looks without the spaces ("correct" English grammar says there should be no spaces.)
- Kerrick 2y agoPeople can pry my em dashes from my cold, dead hands.
- hamhock666 2y agoKind of ironic given what you are posting about. I think I need to get off the internet
- sim7c00 2y agohappy you spotted that ;>. you should definily stay on the interwebz!
- jancsika 2y agoSince there's a human behind the wheel, I'll ask: Are you actually measuring the load-time bottlenecks in devTools? I don't know the exact details but it appears a lot of sites are sitting around waiting on ad-tech to get delivered before they finish loading content.
- acheron 2y agoWhat's wrong with dashes?
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoNobody types em-dashes.
- acheron 2y agoiOS autocorrects -- to an em dash. I do it a lot. Though true I would have spaces around it.
- ale42 2y agoI do! Alt-0151 on Windows. I'm not an AI, though... (and you can also write in Word and copy-paste here)
- dowager_dan99 2y agothis puts you on a desktop with a full-size keyboard or a laptop with a numpad then, which is a very small minority these days with a definite dev-centric skew.
- blooalien 2y agoOn many Android keyboards you can press and hold various keys to get access to many of the "extra" punctuation characters and fancy "foreign" letters. I imagine the same is also true on Apple phones as well.
- ale42 2y agoIndeed I am, but the point here is that some users are actually typing em-dashes outside word processors or publishing/typesetting tools (e.g., on HN)—so it's not necessarily a sign of a message written by an AI (m-dash pun intended). The poster could as well be a developer with a full-size keyboard.
- skyyler 2y ago
- stordoff 2y agoIt provides an interesting test case for the usefulness (or lack thereof) of AI detectors: ZeroGPT: Your Text is Human written (0% AI GPT) QuillBot: 0% of text is likely AI GPTZero: We are highly confident this text was ai generated. 100% Probability AI generated Grammarly: 0% of this text appears to be AI-generated None of them gave the actual answer (human written and AI edited), even though QuillBot has a separate category for this (Human-written & AI-refined: 0%).
- specproc 2y ago100%. I had my first obviously AI-written email the other day, and that was one of the clear tells. I was trying to figure out what made it so obvious, the dashes were one thing, the other things I noticed were: - Bits of the text were in bold. - The tone was horrible, very cringe. Full of superlatives, adjectives and cliches. - I live somewhere where English is the third language, most people don't write emails in English without a few spelling or grammar mistakes. - Nor do they write in paragraphs. - It's also pretty unusual to get a quick reply. Lots of these things are positive, I guess. I'm glad folks are finding it easier to communicate quickly and relatively effectively across languages, but it did kinda make me never want to do business with them again.
- SecretDreams 2y agoBold text is a give away. I'm sad about the hyphens because I use them in my normal typing :(.
- butlike 2y agoIf you can clearly read it in your head in that new sassy GPT voice, it's probably LLM
- ndiddy 2y ago> The tone was horrible, very cringe. Full of superlatives, adjectives and cliches. I wonder how much of this is caused by the AI companies using Reddit as a major training source.
- AlwaysRock 2y agoThis also just sounds like the average sales email haha.
- throwaway439080 2y agoUh oh. I use em dashes all the time in writing. Am I an AI?
- sim7c00 2y agoquite surprised this comment got so much debate after i immediately agreed i used chatgpt -or did i? (u see i dont know how to punctuate , i am not so punctual!)