Tell-tale signs you're using ChatGPT to polish your copy: - 'Leveraging' (nobody in the UK says/writes that) - Em dashes (most people can't be arsed to figure out the shortcut to type them) - Full-stops inside quotation marks (not on my watch) - ThreadSky

paulburley.bsky.social • 9 hours ago

Tell-tale signs you're using ChatGPT to polish your copy:

- 'Leveraging' (nobody in the UK says/writes that)
- Em dashes (most people can't be arsed to figure out the shortcut to type them)
- Full-stops inside quotation marks (not on my watch)

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whitehart.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Every version of MS Word I've used in the last twenty years (at least) has automatically changed dashes with spaces on either side to em-dashes, whether I want it to or not...

paulburley.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Damn you, Clippy!

cooraysmith.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I do at least two of these, and I’m not really sure what ChatGPT is. I love em dashes.

paulburley.bsky.social•8 hours ago

As a type nerd, I love them too, but there's a certain superficial level of 'polish' and 'tone' that ChatGPT adds and it's really noticeable (to me, at least). Whether that's a good/bad thing or not is up for grabs.

iainjclark.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I totally agree on the slightly false, hollow polish of ChatGPT prose. You can intuitively sense it, in the same way that in a lot of AI 'art' you can sense the "house style" of AI enough to zoom in and check.

paulburley.bsky.social•7 hours ago

That's it. 'Flawless gloss' is probably fine for a corporate keynote presentation, but for anything else, it kills any sense of rhythm or authenticity. There's a fine line: spell and grammar checks as a safety net are a given, they don't remove any intent or soul.

beeblepete.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I have an uneasy feeling you're just helping The Algorithm disguise itself from you. One minute we're laughing at supercuts of robots falling over, the next minute they're jemmying our doors open and opening fire. What a world!

paulburley.bsky.social•6 hours ago

It's a simple fact.

tfedder.de•8 hours ago

I don’t care what any style guide says — if the full stop isn’t in the cited source, then it doesn’t belong inside of the quotation marks.

iainjclark.bsky.social•8 hours ago

"Leveraging" is the kind of thing the evil businessman in a RomCom says, but I think I do the other two a fair bit (*whispers* I can never remember where the full stop goes.)

paulburley.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Nothing wrong with the em dash, it just isn't something you commonly see from people who aren't writers... And sort of takes away a certain level of sincerity.

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