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A giveaway for detecting AI-generated text is the use of em-dashes, as noted in op - you are caught bang to rights!
by fallinditch 9mo ago
A giveaway for detecting AI-generated text is the use of em-dashes, as noted in op - you are caught bang to rights!
- nicbou 9mo agoSome keyboards and operating systems — iOS is one of them — convert two dashes into an emdash.
- Nevermark 9mo agoI can’t wait for my keyboard to start auto-completing “Your” with “are absolutely right!”
- nicbou 9mo agoIn this case Apple has cared about typography since its very beginning. Steve Jobs obsessed over it. The OS also replaces simple quotes with fancier ones. I do the same on my websites. It's embedded into my static site generator. Very related: https://practicaltypography.com/ https://practicaltypography.com/
- Nevermark 9mo agoAgreed that is useful, despite the unintended consequences of dash meddling.
- Sharlin 9mo agoAnd macOS, at least my keyboard layout, has both en and em dashes easily typeable with Alt+- and Alt+Shift+- respectively.
- JoeJonathan 9mo agoI use emdashes and endashes all the time—but maybe that's because I'm an academic?
- Sharlin 9mo agoI use them – well, mostly en dashes because that's the custom where I'm from – because I'm a bit of a typography nerd and have grown to dislike the barrenness of ASCII.
- lucumo 9mo agoNot long ago, a statistical study found that AI almost always has an 'e' in its output. It is a firm indicator of AI slop. If you catch a post with an 'e', pay it no mind: it's probably AI. Uh-oh. Caught you. Bang to rights! That post is firmly AI. Bad. Nobody should mind your robot posts.
- Terr_ 9mo agonice try but u used caps and punctuation lol bot /s
- eks391 9mo agoI'm incredibly impressed that you managed to make that whole message without a single usage of the most frequently used letter, except in your quotations.
- agoodusername63 9mo agoBet they asked an AI to make the bit work /s
- lucumo 9mo ago:-D I did ask G'mini for synonyms. And to do a cursory count of e's in my post. Just as a 2nd opinion. It found only glyphs with quotation marks around it. It graciously put forward a proxy for that: "the fifth letter". It's not oft that you run into such alluring confirmation of your point.
- throwaway290 9mo agoI'm having my thumbs-up back >:( My first post took around 6 min & a dictionary. This post took 3. It's a quick skill. No LLMs. Ctrl+f shows you all your 'e's without switching away from this tab. (And why count it? How many is not important, you can simply look if any occur and that's it)
- zahlman 9mo ago
- sqquima 9mo agoMy AI generator loves to write ergo, concordantly, and vis-a-vis.