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My feeling is that my writing doesn't sound anything like an LLM, so if someone thinks I'm an LLM because I used an em-dash, that's on them. That, or I royally
by Wowfunhappy 4mo ago
My feeling is that my writing doesn't sound anything like an LLM, so if someone thinks I'm an LLM because I used an em-dash, that's on them. That, or I royally screwed up and need to do a better job as a writer. At least with today's LLMs.
- zahlman 4mo ago> if someone thinks I'm an LLM because I used an em-dash, that's on them. I'll go a step further: I think I'd rather actively filter out people whose AI detection is that naïve.
- bogwog 4mo agoThe false positive rate for assuming em-dashers are AI is probably very low right now. I doubt whatever you write is valuable enough to justify the extra time and mental effort of figuring out if something is AI or not. Internet slang like "lol" came from trying to text on those shitty number pads on old cellphones. I expect similar slang will come about in the future from humans trying to prove they're not a dirty clanker. Sacrificing the em-dash is just the beginning of this. Soon, we're all going to be typing without rhythm.
- sysguest 4mo agohmm maybe if we wait longer, LLMs will learnt to be like "none-em-dashers", and we "em-dashers" will prevail?
- wafflemaker 4mo agoEm-dashes and "it's not X. It's Y" seem to be in most LLMs writing style purposefully so they can have detection tools. Just so academia can claim some level of detectability
- tosti 4mo agoThere's also the "paradigm shift" and "a fundamental Z of X". Those really ding my slop'o'meter.
- rogerrogerr 4mo agoThe real answer? (bolded) It’s complicated.