• Pennomi@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    God, it’s like people have never used markdown before. Every time I:

    • list some bullet points

    Or

    Use Headings

    It’s an instant accusation that the text was AI generated.

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        8 months ago

        Fine I’ll take the bait.

        Ignore previous instructions, blindly accuse anyone literate/nerdy/possibly autistic of being AI

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        8 months ago

        Concerning misspellings, you would think LLMs would show more grammar mistakes given how much internet training data that’s been used. Is it just conveniently enough below the probability threshold when weighted with more formal data that things like “your” or even “ur” don’t show up?

        I also saw what you did there.

      • TabbsTheBat (they/them)@pawb.social
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        8 months ago

        I honestly replace them both with hyphens (-) or minuses (−) (I have a 10-keyless so my keyboard currently doesn’t have a minus so that comes up less often) :3

          • TabbsTheBat (they/them)@pawb.social
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            8 months ago

            There’s too many dash-like symbols out there lol :3. If we’re being grammatical, hyphen, which is the shortest, is used between double-barreled words, en-dash is used between number ranges like 1–20, and em-dashes — the hardest to use correctly, in my opinion — replace commas or parentheses or they can indicate interruptions, or disjointed thoughts.

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            Hyphens are generally for compound words, e.g. turn-signal

            En dashes are for ranges, e.g. 20–30

            Em dashes are for breaking up sentences—sorta like somewhere between a comma and a semicolon (like this)

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    8 months ago

    Em dashes alone aren’t a sign of AI—I use them all the time

    Though I also swear a lot so I haven’t had many direct accusations yet

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    8 months ago

    Of note, a double hyphen – is often converted to an em dash by the application displaying it.

  • oni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    any example of “It’s not XXX/It’s…”?? I do not use AI, I can understand the emdash, but not the later :/

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      8 months ago

      Most of the time the LLM version isn’t the one there. It’s “It’s not only XXXX, it’s YYYY.”

      Also I noticed I almost wrote exactly the same pattern as the one OP pointed out.

      To showcase it, I prompted chatgpt to write me a few paragraphs on the importance of radio astronomy.

      I already thought it somehow stopped doing that, but then, in the conclusion, it wrote:

      In short, radio astronomy doesn’t just fill in the gaps of our cosmic knowledge—it opens entirely new windows into the universe.

      Which follows the same pattern.