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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • The em-dash is part of properly setting text in a book. Just because those LLM breeders stole gazillions of books to feed their abominations does not make the use of the em-dash wrong.

    Neither does the use of proper opening and closing quotes, apostrophes where they belong, or thinspace at certain places a crime. It is just a sign that someone knows the rules of typesetting.


  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•Dystopian ass time
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    6 hours ago

    That was an interesting problem that my daughter had at university. She studied a field held in English in a non-English country (no, not USA either!). Her fellow students asked her what AI she was using for her papers, as they were always in perfect English. As she absolutely hates AI and despises using them, this very idea made her furious.

    Yes, she wrote those papers herself. Her English is good enough that she did the Cambridge Certificate while she was in school. Her teachers considered her “native speaker”, and sometimes consulted her on texts and vocabulary. And those assholes just assume she must have used an AI just because she is good at it.