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Also, when are people going to get tired of assuming that em dashes automatically mean something was written by an LLM? At this stage, this is such a tired obse
by peteforde 10mo ago
Also, when are people going to get tired of assuming that em dashes automatically mean something was written by an LLM? At this stage, this is such a tired observation that it's unproductive to repeat.
- Aerolfos 10mo agoI don't pay attention to em dashes, they're overused as a pithy saying for sure The actually useful tips are here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
- emodendroket 10mo agoOne problem with any shibboleths people are looking for is as people see more AI writing they're more likely to begin to pick up AI phrasing. I mean, if the power of Web apps can revive the past participle "gotten" in the UK, it shouldn't be surprising it can get people to use the verb "delve" more often.
- twoodfin 10mo agoThe shibboleths aren’t the problem with AI writing; the problem is that it’s bad writing. Good writing uses novel combinations of tools (vocabulary, rhetoric, metaphor) to communicate novel ideas. Bad writing is a cargo cult of those tools.
- emodendroket 10mo agoThat’s a bit of a different problem. I’m talking about people specifically wanting to know whether AI was used. There are lots of bad writers out there with or without AI assistance.
- awesome_dude 10mo agoI find it crazy on the basis that the LLMs shouldn't/wouldn't be using them if they weren't in use... in the training set, in the first place.
- BoorishBears 10mo agoThey literally conclude by quoting Gemini 3: > As my AI assistant gemini-3-flash-preview put it so blindly today: So I can excuse someone for jumping to the conclusion the rest of it was LLM assisted too. I read it and while I didn't think it was LLM writing (until the literal LLM writing), it's an incredibly grating style of writing that would earn ridicule before LLMs. Obnoxiously building up straw men in section headers then knocking them down with "Reality:" is just not a way to have a useful conversation about a topic. Yuck.
- nothrabannosir 10mo agoAuthor confirmed they used an LLM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46427769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46427769