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0 pointsfallinditch3mo ago0 comments

A giveaway for detecting AI-generated text is the use of em-dashes, as noted in op - you are caught bang to rights!

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Some keyboards and operating systems — iOS is one of them — convert two dashes into an emdash.

And macOS, at least my keyboard layout, has both en and em dashes easily typeable with Alt+- and Alt+Shift+- respectively.

JoeJonathan3mo ago

I use emdashes and endashes all the time—but maybe that's because I'm an academic?

Sharlin3mo ago

I use them – well, mostly en dashes because that's the custom where I'm from – because I'm a bit of a typography nerd and have grown to dislike the barrenness of ASCII.

Nevermark3mo ago

I can’t wait for my keyboard to start auto-completing “Your” with “are absolutely right!”

nicbou3mo ago

In this case Apple has cared about typography since its very beginning. Steve Jobs obsessed over it. The OS also replaces simple quotes with fancier ones.

I do the same on my websites. It's embedded into my static site generator.

Very related: https://practicaltypography.com/

Nevermark3mo ago

Agreed that is useful, despite the unintended consequences of dash meddling.

lucumo3mo ago

Not long ago, a statistical study found that AI almost always has an 'e' in its output. It is a firm indicator of AI slop. If you catch a post with an 'e', pay it no mind: it's probably AI.

Uh-oh. Caught you. Bang to rights! That post is firmly AI. Bad. Nobody should mind your robot posts.

eks3913mo ago

I'm incredibly impressed that you managed to make that whole message without a single usage of the most frequently used letter, except in your quotations.

zahlman3mo ago

Such omission is a hobby of many WWW folk. I can, in fact, think back to finding a community on R*ddit known as "AVoid5", which had this trial as its main point.

Down with that foul fifth glyph! Down, I say!

hardlianotion3mo ago

second vowel actually.

agoodusername633mo ago

Bet they asked an AI to make the bit work /s

lucumo3mo ago

:-D

I did ask G'mini for synonyms. And to do a cursory count of e's in my post. Just as a 2nd opinion. It found only glyphs with quotation marks around it. It graciously put forward a proxy for that: "the fifth letter".

It's not oft that you run into such alluring confirmation of your point.

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PurelyApplied3mo ago

I apprEciatE your dEdication to ExclusivEly using 'e' in quotEd rEfErEncE, but not in thE rEst of your clEarly human-authorEd tExt.

I rEgrEt that I havE not donE thE samE, but plEase accEpt bad formatting as a countErpoint.

throwaway2903mo ago

Finally a human in this forum. Many moons did I long for this contact.

(Assuming you did actually hand craft that I thumbs-up both your humor and industry good sir)

mmarq3mo ago

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47342

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Disparition_(roman)

Terr_3mo ago

nice try but u used caps and punctuation lol bot /s

sqquima3mo ago

My AI generator loves to write ergo, concordantly, and vis-a-vis.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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nicbou3mo ago

Some keyboards and operating systems — iOS is one of them — convert two dashes into an emdash.

Sharlin3mo ago

And macOS, at least my keyboard layout, has both en and em dashes easily typeable with Alt+- and Alt+Shift+- respectively.

JoeJonathan3mo ago

I use emdashes and endashes all the time—but maybe that's because I'm an academic?

Sharlin3mo ago

I use them – well, mostly en dashes because that's the custom where I'm from – because I'm a bit of a typography nerd and have grown to dislike the barrenness of ASCII.

Nevermark3mo ago

I can’t wait for my keyboard to start auto-completing “Your” with “are absolutely right!”

nicbou3mo ago

In this case Apple has cared about typography since its very beginning. Steve Jobs obsessed over it. The OS also replaces simple quotes with fancier ones.

I do the same on my websites. It's embedded into my static site generator.

Very related: https://practicaltypography.com/

Nevermark3mo ago

Agreed that is useful, despite the unintended consequences of dash meddling.

lucumo3mo ago

Not long ago, a statistical study found that AI almost always has an 'e' in its output. It is a firm indicator of AI slop. If you catch a post with an 'e', pay it no mind: it's probably AI.

Uh-oh. Caught you. Bang to rights! That post is firmly AI. Bad. Nobody should mind your robot posts.

eks3913mo ago

I'm incredibly impressed that you managed to make that whole message without a single usage of the most frequently used letter, except in your quotations.

zahlman3mo ago

Such omission is a hobby of many WWW folk. I can, in fact, think back to finding a community on R*ddit known as "AVoid5", which had this trial as its main point.

Down with that foul fifth glyph! Down, I say!

hardlianotion3mo ago

second vowel actually.

agoodusername633mo ago

Bet they asked an AI to make the bit work /s

lucumo3mo ago

:-D

It's not oft that you run into such alluring confirmation of your point.

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PurelyApplied3mo ago

I apprEciatE your dEdication to ExclusivEly using 'e' in quotEd rEfErEncE, but not in thE rEst of your clEarly human-authorEd tExt.

I rEgrEt that I havE not donE thE samE, but plEase accEpt bad formatting as a countErpoint.