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Blog has a unique voice, but also the clear outline structure of a ChatGPT response.

by GenerocUsername 1y ago

hnuser123456 1y ago
Yep, has em dashes all over.
- CodeMage 1y ago
  The first time someone accused me of being a bot because I use em dashes for inserting parentheticals, I was flabbergasted and then pissed off. I have plenty of concerns about GenAI, but I honestly didn't expect one of the problems to be "using a wide variety of punctuation is frowned upon". What's next? "Only bots use the Oxford comma", maybe? That said, this blog post does seem to use em dashes "incorrectly", at least according to what I've been taught. The way I've been taught to use them, they're not exactly the same thing as a comma and you cannot use them interchangeably. But perhaps I'm nitpicking. (PS: If it's not clear, I'm not the author of the blog. I'm just someone who hates how the GenAI is contributing to the enshittification of communication.)
  - hnuser123456 1y ago
    Their presence isn't enough on its own, but combined with the tone and style, it definitely "feels" like the way chatgpt talks. The blog owner seems obsessed with productivity hacks so I wouldn't be surprised. At least you can feel confident knowing that people who write like you make up a significant portion of its training.
- ttepasse 1y ago
  As someone who memorised the key combo for em dashes, curly quotes and guillemot's back in IRC days this notion depresses me.
  - tstrimple 1y ago
    The Old Man Who Yells at Clouds in me is convinced that soon the true tell for AI will be things like "used punctuation", "didn't misspell or shorten words", and "used an Oxford comma." Maybe Ken was right: https://bsky.app/profile/kenchengceo.bsky.social/post/3llyr2zo6r225 https://bsky.app/profile/kenchengceo.bsky.social/post/3llyr2...
wodenokoto 1y ago
Could be a result of “clean up my post and fix the intro”
fellowniusmonk 1y ago
The checkbox tables really stood out to me.

Blog has a unique voice, but also the clear outline structure of a ChatGPT response.

hnuser123456 1y ago

Yep, has em dashes all over.

CodeMage 1y ago
The first time someone accused me of being a bot because I use em dashes for inserting parentheticals, I was flabbergasted and then pissed off. I have plenty of concerns about GenAI, but I honestly didn't expect one of the problems to be "using a wide variety of punctuation is frowned upon". What's next? "Only bots use the Oxford comma", maybe? That said, this blog post does seem to use em dashes "incorrectly", at least according to what I've been taught. The way I've been taught to use them, they're not exactly the same thing as a comma and you cannot use them interchangeably. But perhaps I'm nitpicking. (PS: If it's not clear, I'm not the author of the blog. I'm just someone who hates how the GenAI is contributing to the enshittification of communication.)
- hnuser123456 1y ago
  Their presence isn't enough on its own, but combined with the tone and style, it definitely "feels" like the way chatgpt talks. The blog owner seems obsessed with productivity hacks so I wouldn't be surprised. At least you can feel confident knowing that people who write like you make up a significant portion of its training.
ttepasse 1y ago
As someone who memorised the key combo for em dashes, curly quotes and guillemot's back in IRC days this notion depresses me.
- tstrimple 1y ago
  The Old Man Who Yells at Clouds in me is convinced that soon the true tell for AI will be things like "used punctuation", "didn't misspell or shorten words", and "used an Oxford comma." Maybe Ken was right: https://bsky.app/profile/kenchengceo.bsky.social/post/3llyr2zo6r225 https://bsky.app/profile/kenchengceo.bsky.social/post/3llyr2...

wodenokoto 1y ago

Could be a result of “clean up my post and fix the intro”

fellowniusmonk 1y ago

The checkbox tables really stood out to me.