• ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I try to use em dashes when I can, but I think they’re used wrong in the comment above (IIRC they’re not supposed to be surrounded by spaces, but I could be wrong). What tips me off is the unambiguously “LLM” narrative voice and structure (“let’s break it down”, followed by an ordered list). Not that a human can’t type that, but sometimes it seems like ChatGPT is incapable of spitting out words in any other structure.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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        1 day ago

        You’re right, en dashes would have been fine there. Em dashes don’t get spaced—and have specific grammatical uses too.

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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          counter—point ; noone will accuse u of being a Ai if your grammer is shitte in a precise mannor , thou they will gouge ther I:s out when trying to reed it

          actually come to think of it, aren’t homophones/alternate spellings a pretty good way to avoid AI stuff? since they have absolutely no concept of the sounds words make. though i suppose it’ll only work until the models get trained on that data…

    • Reyali@lemm.ee
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      I used to use em dashes all the time and now I find myself rethinking my writing styles because of people like you and it’s obnoxious.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I use em dashes all the time, but I don’t put a space on either side—I feel like that’s not the correct way to use one. If it is, I don’t wanna be correct.