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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 1 point 6 days ago* (4 children)

I'm not screaming about an em-dash. Look at the first comment they make on their posts and come back and tell me what you think.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 child)

come back and tell me what you think.

I also dislike this sort of condescending tone on forums. I’m guilty of it too, but it never makes me want to engage.

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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

I'm not being condescending at all and your comment makes perfect sense in isolation. It's stupid to call out a single construction (or punctuation mark) as you're interpreting me as having done. I'm just assuming you're smart enough to see a pattern when you see it repeated often enough; so sorry, I guess?

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[–] khannie@lemmy.world 1 point 6 days ago (1 child)

I wasn't involved here, got curious, did look and.... Yeah it's odd. An awful lot of commonality.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 point 5 days ago

So is there in my history.

Same with some replies in my inbox. I see a lot of semicolons, "not X but Y" formats, OpenAI purple prose, stuff I might suspect as slop in specific contexts, but I'm not pointing fingers over it unless it seems like they are actually trying to spam something. There's no way I can tell if an LLM was used with reasonable certainty.

Perhaps I'm unreasonably agitated by this. But I don't like the idea of a "purity test" for writing style; the Tech Bros that are forcing that paranoia on us don't deserve one ounce of our attention.

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