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The sheer number of em dashes in the text suggest to me that the reporter didn't write anything, ChatGPT did.
by afavour 9mo ago
The sheer number of em dashes in the text suggest to me that the reporter didn't write anything, ChatGPT did.
- zengineer 9mo agoThe other day I read some old blog posts of mine (~2016) and they contain "em dashes". According to you they were all written by AI.
- swiftcoder 9mo agoYou know posh schools teach people to write with em dashes too, right?
- progbits 9mo agoNot to use them excessively. Good human writing has variety and style. AI articles are the same boring template, doesn't matter if it's emdash or not.
- swiftcoder 9mo agoA lot of people don't actually learn good writing at their fancy schools - but they do they learn the stylistic quirks that signal one went to the fancy school. How do you think it got in the LLM training set in the first place?
- bee_rider 9mo agoIf we give up every bit of punctuation that ChatGPT uses, written language will become much worse.
- dartharva 9mo agoFor the last time.. Word (the program very popularly used by many reporters across the world to write articles) automatically autocorrects hyphens to em-dashes according to the default loaded grammar rules for En-US. The existence of em-dashes in an article does NOT immediately imply GenAI slop.
- m-schuetz 9mo agoChatGPT learned to use em dashes from somewhere. They were widely used before LLMs.