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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  i think macos inserts those automatically if you do three dashes.

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  • carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    its also on phone keyboards, at least on iphone, you can hold the dash key and select the long dash: —

    same for the ellipsis, which a lot of people cite as a proof something was written with AI, but iphones (and other phones too, probably) insert them automatically when you type 3 dots…

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    • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Libre (and ethnic cleansing of Palestine supporting Microsoft) Office does, too.

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• Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There is a key for — on my phone. Just hold down the - key and it pops up as an option. I use it all the time.

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  • DahGangalang@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There is a key for — on my phone. Just hold down the - key and it pops up as an option — I use it all the time.

    FTFY

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    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Bro caught me slippin’

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• ToastedCoconuts@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My organic chemistry professor spent a solid 30 minutes explaining the difference between an em dash and an en dash so we could use them correctly in our lab reports. Then ended his little lecture with saying "They're in the special character menu of your word processor. Unless you're on Mac, then I suggest googling them."

  I don't think any of us used either dash, but I'm just sad no one called him on his BS lol

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  • kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    On a Mac, you can do opt+hyphen or shift+opt+hyphen, for en dash or em dash respectively.

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The emdash is a dead giveaway, but its mostly the high school level writing style.

  It is astonishingly uncreative and simplistic with sentence structure, it just directly regurgitates the points from its prompt it was specifically directed to address, there’s no clever or compelling phrasing or larger metaphor, there’s no personality ir expressiveness, willingness to say something maybe a bit edgy or controversial, very neutered and bland writing style… and there’s no consecutive introduction of, then expanding on nor synthesis of concepts, all the references are just mentioned, explained, addressed, discarded, onto the next one, like so many bullet points that need to be fluffed up to hit a word count.

  Finally… did you intentionally prompt it to emulate the ‘in this essay i will…’ ‘self contained, non referential body paragraphs’ ‘in conclusion, here’s a few sentences that could have been the entire essay’ … did you intetionally tell it to mimic this extremely basic writing style?

  Or did it just… do all of that on its own, like the mean average of five million highschool sophomore book reports?

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  • CromulantCrow@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I literally just prompted it with “Please finish this essay” and then typed in what justqueenthoughts had posted. And yeah, I think it followed along in the style of the prompt reasonably well, but didn’t really add anything interesting. Which is no surprise, that’s what LLMs do. Point it in a direction and it will regurgitate an approximation of the mean in the training data that applies.

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• ThoGot@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My laptop can do the — when I press AltGr and -

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• darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think the best tell that this is AI generated is the — character. There’s not even a key on the keyboard for that.

  Then you must have a really crappy keyboard.

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