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There are people IRL that actually use em dashes and colons. Just because em-dash usage is the latest trend in "spot the AI" doesn't mean that everything with
by mannyv 11mo ago
There are people IRL that actually use em dashes and colons.
Just because em-dash usage is the latest trend in "spot the AI" doesn't mean that everything with an em-dash is AI generated.
- anonymous908213 11mo agoPeople do not typically use a combined 75 of them in one short essay, and I pointed out several other reasons. Do you know many people IRL who use a colon/em-dash in almost every single paragraph they write, while also just so happening to mimick multiple other LLM writing patterns? Please do not be so childishly reductive. If my comment could be reduced to "it contains em-dashes", then the comment I would've wrote would be "it contains em-dashes".
- tensegrist 11mo agoplease don't defend this atrocious llm writing style (and thus, implicitly, the broader issue of people outsourcing writing to llms) by picking random aspects thereof and pointing out that there are human writers who share them t. someone who uses a lot of em-dashes and doesn't plan to stop