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It’s largely the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. You’ve started noticing it because you just learned about it.
by pavlov 2y ago
It’s largely the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. You’ve started noticing it because you just learned about it.
- dkdcwashere 2y agoyep. been using them for years. others have too. it’s not weird same thing happened with “delve” — these are just words and grammar, people use them there is no accurate way to tell whether text came out of a neural network or not
- chatmasta 2y agoI’m not sure the same happened with “delve.” I saw an analysis of paper abstracts showing a clear uptick of “delve” starting with the mass-adoption of ChatGPT. Maybe it suddenly became a trendy word — especially in paper abstracts — or maybe more paper abstracts were edited by ChatGPT.
- kingo55 2y agoCombining the various "tells" of an LLM (em dashes, delve, grammatical signs etc) with the context (Reddit comments vs professional setting), you could establish a rough probability it was AI generated. At this point, it's the best we can hope for.
- LeoPanthera 2y agoGemini is in love with the phrase "It's important to..." Whenever I see that at the start of a paragraph I know that there's an 80% chance it was written by Gemini.
- bangaladore 2y agoI feel this is an broad oversimplification. When looking at the context of a given text, use of certain words or punctuation, can very well indicate AI use. The "original" example was delve. There is no doubt that AI (did, or still does) use this word at a significantly higher frequency than the average person. I would say the same about em dashes. When browsing a Reddit thread about a video game, if you encounter numerous comments written perfectly, especially those containing indicators like em dashes, the word delve, or similar language, it certainly can raise the question: am I genuinely seeing comments from users who write this way in this specific context, or is this content more likely produced by an LLM?
- MindBeams 2y agoIt sucks that people understanding their own language marks them as possibly AI.
- citrus1330 2y agoNo, it's not. AI uses em dashes far more frequently than the average human.
- Kiro 2y agoWhy is this getting downvoted? ChatGPT is completely obsessed with em dashes. I don't even know how to make it on my keyboard.
- bangaladore 2y agoYeah, people are saying "well you didn't know about em dashes before LLMs". No, I learned about em dashes in school, I just literally don't know how to type them on my keyboard and I'm too stubborn to learn how to.
- jeroenhd 2y agoIt depends. Em dashes in news articles and written publications? Definitely expected. Em dashes on social media or reddit? Either someone who works in typesetting, or an LLM. Most likely an LLM, giving the dying nature of printed media. Only typography nerds and professional printers care about things like these. Popular media, even modern professional media, hasn't been paying all that much attention.
- arduanika 2y agoPlausible. But apparently per TFA it's actually spelled Baader–Meinhof, with an en-dash not a hyphen.