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It's less about the punctuation used, and more about the necessity of the punctuation used. In the sentence you provided, you make a series of points, link the
by jonfw 1y ago
It's less about the punctuation used, and more about the necessity of the punctuation used.
In the sentence you provided, you make a series of points, link them together, and provide examples. If not an em dash, you would have required some other form of punctuation to communicate the same meaning
The LLM, in comparison, communicated a single point with a similar amount of punctuation. If not an em dash- it could have used no punctuation at all.
- kragen 1y agoYes, I like to believe that I am sentient, expressing coherent thoughts clearly and compactly, and that this is the root of the difference.
- standardly 1y agoExactly, well said. Em dashes are fine. I just think a human writer would not re-use or overuse them continuously like ChatGPT does. It feels natural to keep sentence structures varied (and I think it's something they teach in English comp)
- fragmede 1y agoYou're absolutely right! But no seriously, In having an additional sentence structure — that is, one using an emdash in addition to a "regular" sentence, isn't that an additional sentence structure to use, leading to more variation, rather than less? (I'd "delve" into the subject but I don't have more to say.)