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Probably not, because now you'll have all of the people who are worried about this ensuring their AI generated text never ever uses em-dashes, and then that wil
by vidarh 2mo ago
Probably not, because now you'll have all of the people who are worried about this ensuring their AI generated text never ever uses em-dashes, and then that will be the new tell.
Or we can just be more concerned with whether something is well written and well presented and accept that sometimes that is going to be AI written text.
- abustamam 2mo agoMy personal "tell" is that I use -- instead of em-dash. If you get a message from me with an actual "—" character it's almost certainly AI generated. I guess that's kind of my duress code :)
- fr2029 2mo ago-- is n-dash and wrong. That's how you recognize an uneducated person. — is just opt-shift-hyphen on mac. no excuse for ascii n-dashes.
- maleldil 2mo agoWhat if you're on Windows where it's much less convenient? Also, latex and others substitute that for the proper dash, so one might do it out of habit. Also also,it's en-dash, not n-dash. And it's correct in British English, where the em-dash largely fell out of use.
- abustamam 2mo agoOk. Today I learned. But I'll still continue to use -- because I don't care enough to be correct and most people will understand me regardless. Being pedantic about it doesn't seem very productive.
- xrcyz 2mo agoIn google docs, double-dash shortcuts to em-dash.
- jurgenburgen 2mo ago> Or we can just be more concerned with whether something is well written and well presented and accept that sometimes that is going to be AI written text. Slop is slop, it doesn’t matter if it was human or LLM written. If a code comment or Slack message is 200 words long but still makes no fucking sense then it’s slop. A message can be 10 words long and riddled with typos but if the message is understandable it’s not slop.