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Some people think AI writing has a tell – the em dash (washingtonpost.com)
4 points by rwc9 14 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Some legit writers actually use the em dash — how else would it end up in the training data?


Plenty of people type the double-dash in its place —- and many autocorrect tools will just replace that with a proper em-dash character.

Apparently the way I was taught to write is how LLMs write. I’m really not looking forward to my humanity being denied on a regular basis as a result.


https://archive.is/0vfWF

This article is a huge nothing-burger that seems to hinge on the sentence "some would-be AI sleuths claim that the em dash is seldom seen outside of AI text," which is just plain nonsense.




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