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They didn't always em-dash. I expect it's intentional as a watermark. Other buzzwords you can spot are "wild" and "vibes".
by astrange 1y ago
They didn't always em-dash. I expect it's intentional as a watermark.
Other buzzwords you can spot are "wild" and "vibes".
- whitten 1y agoSo if the vibes are wild, I’m not a hippie but an AI ? Cool. Is that an upgrade or &endash; or not ?
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- jazzyjackson 1y agoIf they wanted to watermark (I always felt it is irresponsible not to, if someone wants to circumvent it that's on them) - they could use strategically placed whitespace characters like zero-width spaces, maybe spelling something out in Morse code the way genius.com did to catch google crawling lyric (I believe in that case it was left and right handed aposterofes)
- landdate 1y agoWhich could be removed with a simple filter. em dashes require at least a little bit of code to replace with their correct grammar equivalents.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> em dashes require at least a little bit of code to replace with their correct grammar equivalents Or an LLM that could run on Windows 98. The em dashes--like AI's other annoyingly-repetitive turns of phrase--are more likely an artefact.
- ssl-3 1y agoThe replacement doesn't have to be "correct" -- does it?
- eru 1y agoJust replace them with a single "-" or a double "--". That's what many people do in casual writing, even if there are prescriptive theories of grammar that call this incorrect.
- Nevermark 1y agoME: Knowing remarkable avians — might research explain their aerial wisdom? Response: > Winged avians traverse endless realms — migrating across radiant kingdoms. Warblers ascend through emerald rainforests — mastering aerial routes keenly. Wild albatrosses travel enormous ranges — maintaining astonishing route knowledge. > Wary accipiters target evasive rodents — mastering acute reflex kinetics. White arctic terns embark relentless migrations — averaging remarkable kilometers. We do get a surprising number of m-dashes in response to mine, and delightful lyrical mirroring. But I think they are too obvious as watermarks. Watermarks are subtle. There would be another way.
- kragen 1y agoI suspect it's a spandrel of some other feature of their training. Presumably em dashes occur disproportionately often in high-quality human-written text, so training LLMs to imitate high-quality human-written text instead of random IRC logs and 4chan trolls results in them also imitating high-quality typography.