Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 day agoCan we please stop with the em-dash bullshit? That’s a literary tool, not a sign of an LLM in play. That people did not encounter them ahead of ChatGPT speaks more to their news diet than the ability to be a literary critic.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It’s a literary tool that is so pervasive in LLM output and so unused in most writing that it’s become a common indicator that LLMs may be involved. Considering the disjointed flow from subject to subject and shittyness of the article in general, I think that the odds are in my favor.
Feel free to continue shouting from your high horse though.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 day ago
I’m not sure whence your animosity comes. I’m been a columnist since the '90s, and I assure you: Em-dashes are on the menu.
To claim proof of LLMs is to say it was never done until then. It most assuredly was.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
My animosity comes from ignoring every other point in my comment(s). I’m not saying no one ever used em-dashes before LLMs. You’re being intentionally obtuse.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 day ago