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Human em dash users, are you still afraid of being mislabeled as "AI"? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Why em dashes specifically? Why is THAT what we blame on AI?

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[โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yes, but most human em dashes are from writing going through relatively professional processes, not, say, writing a comment online. Of course, there are many โ€” like myself โ€” who know how to type them quickly, and choose to use them, but LLMs are definitely a lot more eager to use them than the average person.

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