Comment on Do you know the answer?

• ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I try to use em dashes when I can, but I think they’re used wrong in the comment above (IIRC they’re not supposed to be surrounded by spaces, but I could be wrong). What tips me off is the unambiguously “LLM” narrative voice and structure (“let’s break it down”, followed by an ordered list). Not that a human can’t type that, but sometimes it seems like ChatGPT is incapable of spitting out words in any other structure.

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  • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re right, en dashes would have been fine there. Em dashes don’t get spaced—and have specific grammatical uses too.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      counter—point ; noone will accuse u of being a Ai if your grammer is shitte in a precise mannor , thou they will gouge ther I:s out when trying to reed it

      actually come to think of it, aren’t homophones/alternate spellings a pretty good way to avoid AI stuff? since they have absolutely no concept of the sounds words make. though i suppose it’ll only work until the models get trained on that data…

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• Reyali@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I used to use em dashes all the time and now I find myself rethinking my writing styles because of people like you and it’s obnoxious.

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  • JacksonLamb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    AI has put me off writing lists.

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• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I use em dashes all the time, but I don’t put a space on either side—I feel like that’s not the correct way to use one. If it is, I don’t wanna be correct.

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  • JacksonLamb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I concur with this.

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Heyo yee em—comrade

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• Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Y’all have got to stop this shit. Real people use real grammar.

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