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Have we pinned down the emdashes source yet? ;-P
by conorcleary 13d ago
Have we pinned down the emdashes source yet? ;-P
- simondotau 13d agoI think it's because LLMs tend to obsessively write in a this-therefore-that kind of way, where an emdash is often the most semantically fitting punctuation.
- threecheese 13d agoApple devices produce a ton of emdashes; "Smart Punctuation" is enabled by default on iOS and iPadOS, maybe Mac as well - and it's at least a decade old. I've had to disable it on all my iDevices bc it breaks some Markdown parsers. How big a % of training data was produced on an Apple device? Ehhhhh probably small.