Some people think AI writing has a tell – the em dash (washingtonpost.com) 4 points by rwc9 1y ago ↗ HN
[–] jtwoodhouse 1y ago ↗ Some legit writers actually use the em dash — how else would it end up in the training data? [–] apothegm 1y ago ↗ Plenty of people type the double-dash in its place —- and many autocorrect tools will just replace that with a proper em-dash character.Apparently the way I was taught to write is how LLMs write. I’m really not looking forward to my humanity being denied on a regular basis as a result.
[–] apothegm 1y ago ↗ Plenty of people type the double-dash in its place —- and many autocorrect tools will just replace that with a proper em-dash character.Apparently the way I was taught to write is how LLMs write. I’m really not looking forward to my humanity being denied on a regular basis as a result.
[–] mubou 1y ago ↗ https://archive.is/0vfWFThis article is a huge nothing-burger that seems to hinge on the sentence "some would-be AI sleuths claim that the em dash is seldom seen outside of AI text," which is just plain nonsense.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 18.8 ms ] threadApparently the way I was taught to write is how LLMs write. I’m really not looking forward to my humanity being denied on a regular basis as a result.
This article is a huge nothing-burger that seems to hinge on the sentence "some would-be AI sleuths claim that the em dash is seldom seen outside of AI text," which is just plain nonsense.