Why em dashes specifically? Why is THAT what we blame on AI?

  • communism@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    First I’ve heard of em dashes being an “AI” thing. Aren’t LLMs trained on human-generated text? They wouldn’t be outputting em dashes if humans didn’t also output em dashes.

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      8 days ago

      I heard of it from this video

      https://youtu.be/9Ch4a6ffPZY

      It’s just one of several tells. Although you can’t really rely on anything. Just like “badly-drawn hands” is less likely to show up now.

      Once I heard this, I had to learn how to type them, btw!

      • pop [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        8 days ago

        The badly-drawn hands thing is frustrating because any artist can tell you it’s not so easy to draw realistic/accurate hands. So, sometimes you might see genuine art with “weird” hands, and it’s painful for the artist to be accused of using AI.

    • chaos@beehaw.org
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      8 days ago

      Yes, but most human em dashes are from writing going through relatively professional processes, not, say, writing a comment online. Of course, there are many — like myself — who know how to type them quickly, and choose to use them, but LLMs are definitely a lot more eager to use them than the average person.