Are Em Dashes Really a Sign of AI Writing?
Are Em Dashes Really a Sign of AI Writing?
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'ChatGPT Hyphen': Are Em Dashes a Giveaway of AI Writing?
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I use them fairly often—am I a bot? https://lemmy.ml/search?creatorId=1468481&q=%E2%80%94
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Dude, same. I fucking love em- and en-dashes. I don't usually use them from my phone, but definitely from a computer.
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I was going to say, Mac and iOS make it pretty easy to get to and it looks better than a regular dash in context. Then again, I’m one of the few people that I know that only writes in full punctuation at all times.
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They're also easy to enter with a compose key which should be part of any normal Unix-ish desktop setup.
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I use em dashes all the time. How dare you call me a robot, filthy meatsack?
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With default settings, libreoffice will autocorrect hyphens to em dashes in some cases
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This is so stupid. I have my AI server up right now in another tab and setup for creative writing. I currently have these tokens banned:
3221, 265, 28845, 382, 650, 28716, 16913, 1101Those tokens correspond to specific word fragments and punctuation. Most are due to some sentence starting patterns I don't like. I can ban any tokens and the model will not use them. All models have this functionality in the API for any user that actually knows what they are doing at a basic elementary level. Like the tokens for
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It's not proof but it's a red flag. However, I assume that everyone who uses AI to assist with their writing, such as myself, probably edits them out for this very reason.
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if i physically cannot type the punctuation, its presence in my work would have to be the result of something other than me putting it there.
now, i can't speak for anyone else's usage cases, but if there are emdashes then they're either using a fancy ass word processor that inserts them or they're using AI and that "or" is too suspect for me to overlook.
just type like a normal human being maybe?
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Word autocorrects 2 hypens in a row to an em dash, and even in google docs you can set it to autocorrect nearly anything you want into an em dash. There are valid uses for it that normal humans do use. Maybe not in casual conversation, but in journalism, legal work, books, etc. there are reasons someone might choose to use one over structuring their writing another way
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I routinely use mdashes. What is your operating system?
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I have autohotkey set up so that alt and alt+shift hyphen produce en- and em-dash in whatever app I'm typing into, with no fancy ass required. The fact you can't physically work out how to do that is your problem.
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