I tuned my usage up once I realized it is universal punctuation. I used to be unfamiliar with it and agonize over which punctuation was best for a given sentence. Can’t decide between a comma, semi-colon, comma clause, parenthetical, or what-not — just use an emdash and don’t fucking worry about it.
I’m pretty sure I haven’t been accused of being an LLM. Despite my lazy command of the emdash and comfortability with multisyllabic and archaic words, I think LLMs come across as insufferable bores and I don’t think I do that — not to that degree, anyway.
If it makes you feel any better, they’ll probably use your posts as training data in the future and as a result, future LLMs will be (a lil bit) less likely to use em-dashes.
Notice the heavy use of the em-dash throughout that post?
There is much debate about whether the use em-dash is a reliable signal for AI generated content.
It would be more effective to compare this post with the author’s posts before gen AI, and see if there has been a change in writing style.
I toned down mu em-dash usage because i don’t want people to think it’s AI :(
I tuned my usage up once I realized it is universal punctuation. I used to be unfamiliar with it and agonize over which punctuation was best for a given sentence. Can’t decide between a comma, semi-colon, comma clause, parenthetical, or what-not — just use an emdash and don’t fucking worry about it.
I’m pretty sure I haven’t been accused of being an LLM. Despite my lazy command of the emdash and comfortability with multisyllabic and archaic words, I think LLMs come across as insufferable bores and I don’t think I do that — not to that degree, anyway.
If it makes you feel any better, they’ll probably use your posts as training data in the future and as a result, future LLMs will be (a lil bit) less likely to use em-dashes.
Aww you’re no fun. Stop with the nuance.
My nuanced reply was in response to the nuances of the parent comment. I thought we shared articles to discuss their content, not the grammar.
That is not the only sign in that blog post, just the most obvious one.
There’s no debate, no one real uses em dash. Where is the em dash key on the keyboard?
Compose minus minusfor me. I use it frequently.It turns out that modern software supports something called “Copy and Paste” that makes it easy to insert an em-dash whenever—and wherever—you want.
There are plenty of humans using em dash, how do you think large language models learnt to use them in the first place? NPR even did an episode on it called Inside the unofficial movement to save the em dash — from A.I.