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"We believe computers should work for people, and dream of a future where computing, like cooking or word processing, is available to everyone." generic... "w

by blips 1y ago

"We believe computers should work for people, and dream of a future where computing, like cooking or word processing, is available to everyone." generic... "with live updating — all for free. LLMs ar..." also see a fair few of these long dashes (18x) which is either a tell tail of you've used ChatGPT to generate the text or you've started writing like the AI. I havn't thought about it that hard yet but i don't really like consuming AI generated content at all as soon as i see signs of it part of my brain turns off. And no slight to the creator, I have as much interest in writing this kind of copy as any developer would i'd imagine.

ben_w 1y ago
> "with live updating — all for free. LLMs ar..." also see a fair few of these long dashes (18x) which is either a tell tail of you've used ChatGPT to generate the text or you've started writing like the AI. It's also my IRL writing style for the last 10-15 years :P That said: > I havn't thought about it that hard yet but i don't really like consuming AI generated content at all as soon as i see signs of it part of my brain turns off. Likewise. At least, when someone else did the prompting — I do like what LLMs can output, but when LLM answers are sufficient I prefer to cut out the middle-man and ask the LLM directly myself.
Hendrikto 1y ago
If you read up on hyphens VS en-dashes VS em-dashes, using em-dashes is actually the correct usage — as a separator — in the case you cited. I disagree with your conclusion of this being a telltale sign of being AI generated.
juped 1y ago
To type an em dash, an important punctuation mark, press compose and then hyphen thrice. — ←like this. Shift-option-hyphen on Macs, I think.
jrcplus 1y ago
Scrappy co-creator here. As an old-school Mac user (from the days of desktop publishing) I do know the difference between hyphen and en-dash and em-dash :) We used AI sparsely for wordsmithing and definitely not for generating the text. Believe me, putting it together was a lot of work (Pontus did the heavy lifting).

by blips 1y ago

ben_w 1y ago

> "with live updating — all for free. LLMs ar..." also see a fair few of these long dashes (18x) which is either a tell tail of you've used ChatGPT to generate the text or you've started writing like the AI. It's also my IRL writing style for the last 10-15 years :P That said: > I havn't thought about it that hard yet but i don't really like consuming AI generated content at all as soon as i see signs of it part of my brain turns off. Likewise. At least, when someone else did the prompting — I do like what LLMs can output, but when LLM answers are sufficient I prefer to cut out the middle-man and ask the LLM directly myself.

Hendrikto 1y ago

If you read up on hyphens VS en-dashes VS em-dashes, using em-dashes is actually the correct usage — as a separator — in the case you cited. I disagree with your conclusion of this being a telltale sign of being AI generated.

juped 1y ago

To type an em dash, an important punctuation mark, press compose and then hyphen thrice. — ←like this. Shift-option-hyphen on Macs, I think.

jrcplus 1y ago

Scrappy co-creator here. As an old-school Mac user (from the days of desktop publishing) I do know the difference between hyphen and en-dash and em-dash :) We used AI sparsely for wordsmithing and definitely not for generating the text. Believe me, putting it together was a lot of work (Pontus did the heavy lifting).