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Use two dashes instead of an actual em dash. ChatGPT, at least, cannot do the same--it just can't.
by Buttons840 1y ago
Use two dashes instead of an actual em dash. ChatGPT, at least, cannot do the same--it just can't.
- chaps 1y agoAs a frequent user of two dashes.. I hate how people now associate it with AI. Also, that "cow-orkers" doesn't look like AI-generated slop at all..? Just scrolling down a bit shows that most of them are three years and older.
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- JoshTriplett 1y agoConventionally, in various tools that take plain text as input, two dashes is an en-dash, and three dashes is an em-dash.
- skeledrew 1y agoChatGPT: "Hold my beer..."
- Jtsummers 1y agoIt can't use two dashes? Is that like how Data couldn't use contractions (except he did)?
- Buttons840 1y agoI've asked it before, "please rewrite that but replace the em dashes with double hyphens", and then it says "sure, here you go", and continues to use em dashes.
- Ancapistani 1y agoWere you using the web interface? If so, that’s likely why. It renders output dynamically on the frontend. I bet if you did the same through the API, you’d get the results you want.
- Buttons840 1y agoYes, I was using the web interface.
- xeonmc 1y agoI thought the convention for en-dash is two hyphens straddled between spaces, and three hyphens without spacer for em-dash?