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Lmao GPT-5 is still riddled with em dashes. At least we can still identify AI generated text slop for now
by jdoe1337halo 1y ago
Lmao GPT-5 is still riddled with em dashes. At least we can still identify AI generated text slop for now
- andybak 1y agoYou will be foiled by a regex
- jdoe1337halo 1y agoHow so
- andybak 1y agoI thought I was making a fairly obvious jokey riposte? "If you're claiming that em dashes are your method for detecting if text is AI generated then anyone who bothers to do a search/replace on the output will get past you."
- efilife 1y agoCan you explain?
- FergusArgyll 1y agosed 's/—/ /g'
- 1attice 1y agolol every word processor since the nineties has automatically expanded em dashes, and some of us typography nerds manually type em dashes with the compose key, because it's the correct character, and two hyphens does not an em dash make
- tiahura 1y agoThe em dashes are there because they're used extensively by professional writers.
- nluken 1y agoThe em dash isn't just the present state of AI slop— it's the future!
- racecar789 1y agoAnd a semicolon, AI really likes semicolons.