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LLMs use em- dashes because they appear in the training set. In other words, humans use them a lot. Such a weird issue to be adopted as an indicator of robot te
by gumby 3mo ago
LLMs use em- dashes because they appear in the training set. In other words, humans use them a lot. Such a weird issue to be adopted as an indicator of robot text.
- pohl 3mo agoEveryone unintentionally telling on themselves as not being big readers.
- hollandheese 3mo agoEm dashes are hardly ever used in modern literature. Sure, it's a tell that people aren't reading late 18th century to early 20th century literature, but that's not the same as not being big readers.
- pohl 3mo agoThat’s an extraordinary claim.
- hollandheese 3mo agoNot nearly as extraordinary as yours.
- Bolwin 3mo agoLlms use them a lot more than humans, including this blog post. Like all slop. There's a reason it's called slop and it's not because of restraint