• Pennomi@lemmy.world
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    3 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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        3 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

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            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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            3 months ago

            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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    3 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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    3 months ago

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

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    3 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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      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.