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> There are a ton of people like that, but the LLM house style also exists because a ton of people write that way too. Everyone keeps saying this, and I keep a
by lelanthran 7mo ago
> There are a ton of people like that, but the LLM house style also exists because a ton of people write that way too.
Everyone keeps saying this, and I keep asking for a link to this type of writing that is dated pre-2022, and I keep getting nothing.
If it was that common, I'd have gotten at least a few examples by now.
- snypher 7mo agoI believe that, much the same way as a fighter jet designed for the average pilot doesn't fit any of them, the 'average' of written text ends up reading like an LLM without being able to find a 100% matching sample.
- xigoi 7mo agoI certainly used em dashes before 2022, and so did anyone who cares about proper typography.
- lelanthran 7mo ago> I certainly used em dashes before 2022, and so did anyone who cares about proper typography. Who said anything about em-dashes? There's an entire Wikipedia page documenting the tells, and only one of the 15 or so items is "extended usage of em-dashes". It's not fluff, it's actual tells. No nonsense, no BS, just tells. The key insight is...
- xigoi 7mo agoI have seen people accuse someone of using AI solely because the comment contained em dashes.
- lelanthran 7mo ago> I have seen people accuse someone of using AI solely because the comment contained em dashes. Yeah, but you haven't seen me do that :-) (You also haven't seen anyone on HN recently (since this year) do that either).