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Ask HN: Why do LLMs use em dashes so often?
Why is it that all of the LLMs by default use em dashes more than any other punctuation? Is it the versatility of em dashes? But even then how did LLMs decide that em dashes were the versatile punctuation marks. I have been reading aldaily for the last 11-12 years and I have not seen em dashes used that frequently. LLMs insert em dash in almost every long response.
- alexavilov 5mo agoit's a quick and almost sure AI created text tell :)
- dwa3592 5mo agowhat is? my post?
- alexavilov 5mo agoem dash overuse is a good indicator that text was created by AI
- carlos_rpn 5mo agoMaybe this will help: https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-li... And I think I saw some others similar articles and blog posts over the years, but the tl;dr; is that a large enough ammount of text used in their training contains em-dashes because a large ammount of writers use them.
- dlcarrier 5mo agoIt follows the same style as the training data, and academic papers, which use a lot of em dashes, are an excellent source of training data.