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I agree that it feels LLMish (though the LLMs learned it from humans and it's always possible that whoever wrote it just has that sort of style) but the dashes
by gjm11 1y ago
I agree that it feels LLMish (though the LLMs learned it from humans and it's always possible that whoever wrote it just has that sort of style) but the dashes there are en-dashes rather than the longer em-dashes that LLMs seem particularly fond of.
I will be sad if en-dashes come to be seen as LLM fingerprints, because I rather like them.
- venusenvy47 1y agoWhen I'm writing, I've always used en-dashes, but only because it's on my keyboard. Until people recently started talking about this, I didn't realize there was such a thing as en and en-dashes.
- Rebelgecko 1y agoFWIW I think the - character on qwerty keyboards is a hyphen, which is a smidge shorter than an en dash - – —
- bombcar 1y agoOn a Mac it’s easy to type n and m dashes using option and the hyphen key.
- mrob 1y agoIt's common knowledge that em-dashes are a sign of LLM writing. This incentivizes anybody who generates slop to manually search and replace with a different dash or hyphen in an attempt to hide what they did.