Why em dashes specifically? Why is THAT what we blame on AI?

  • communism@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    First I’ve heard of em dashes being an “AI” thing. Aren’t LLMs trained on human-generated text? They wouldn’t be outputting em dashes if humans didn’t also output em dashes.

    • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      I heard of it from this video

      https://youtu.be/9Ch4a6ffPZY

      It’s just one of several tells. Although you can’t really rely on anything. Just like “badly-drawn hands” is less likely to show up now.

      Once I heard this, I had to learn how to type them, btw!