"AI" uses em-dashes because the writers whose (appropriated) work it's trained on use them. I use them a lot, personally, and of course just about everything I've ever written was chucked into the training bin without my consent or assent. So, you know, whenever you see an "AI" em-dash, think of me.
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Gennifer Hutchison
Relying on "does this essay use em-dashes" as a surefire way to weed out AI generated papers is a huge bummer. It's like "using big words" as a giveaway.
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I'm so glad that I was able to complete a degree before LLMs so that I could focus on learning and not altering style
I'm sure someone fed AI engines style & usage books.
I use big words, emdashes & every other goshdarn trick in the book, and apparently I sometimes sound like an AI.
bibliography and chat with Hari Seldon.
Interestingly per https://www.ascii-code.com
0x45 '-' is Hyphen minus
0x96 '–' is "en-dash"
0x97 '—' is "em-dash"
*repentent AI trainer buddies*
Pretty sure AI bots have "trained" on my stuff, where "trained" is synonymous with "stolen."
My stuff is of far less value than yours, but it's still annoying as all fuck.
I dislike posting from a phone because I can't do that Unicode em dash!
Oh.
lol, thanks...
I also love footnotes!
100% with you on the em dash use. I write fic and make heavy use of them; got scr(ai)ped last week. 😩
If anything's a giveaway for a.i. generated text it's verbosity, not punctuation marks. The slop machine really seems to prefer long, convoluted sentences & "five-dollar words"
There IS no shortcut. Everything must be checked and false positives abound.
Much of what's been plagiarized, all the way back to the earliest public writing on the internet, was written by verbose sesquipedalian humans. Don't throw us under the bus.
And yeah, I’ll die on that last hill :)
As has tight microblogging character limits ;)
It dawned on me that John has done to AI exactly what he's done to burritos. He's destroyed them from within.
Would it work?
It's not delivering on the promise to make our lives better at all!
https://bsky.app/profile/saneplanet.bsky.social/post/3lpapbu2oxk2u
M Dash 4 Life
I like the em-dash, but usually with a space before & after because my brain prefers the appearance.
Strunk & White probably hate me.
I'm not an AI! *shakes fist at cloud*