Em dashes and emojis

  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I’m a markdown nerd who likes to use headers to break up longer post and sometimes properly buletpoint or put ASCII art in preformatted boxes. People who thinks they have the magic sauce on LLM generation detection because a post goes out of their way to do more than the bre minimum with punctuation or formatting is an asshole.

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        1 day ago

        From the post title, description, and other peoples comments, I took away that the meme is m9re about suspecting your ex didnt even write their own breakup message based off the use of em dashes.

        Its a cute surface level joke but it touches in a real nerve because Its becoming more and more common for you to be falsely accused of being an LLM and being told to "ignore all previous instructions and (some stupid instruction) based off small writing quirks like using em or markdown and top comments share this frustration too.

        I shouldn’t have to feel self conscious about the way I write

        Just to pass armchair llm detector wannabe vibe checks 🖕. 
        
        • Bravo@eviltoast.org
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          Any time someone accuses me of being a bot I respond with “Tiananmen Winnie the Pooh 8647 Luigi Mangione” and that generally proves my humanity

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          23 hours ago

          I got told to “ignore previous instructions” because I said I liked looking at a painting. I think that’s just going to be an insult now.

        • zqps@sh.itjust.works
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          If it’s a longer post it’s usually clear that it’s written by a human even with all of these superficial indicators.

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          I mean most people are going to use their phones to write messages and given you can’t physically type an em dash it would be normal to be suspicious if you see one.

          Edit: turns out you can physically type them. Still, given that it’s not normal to use them it’s a sign in my book.

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              Ok. You can physically type them I concede, but normal humans don’t use them. Still a sign.

              I would bet that the amount of non proof writers that uses em dashes goes up just because people see that it’s associated with ai and want to be funny.

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                  Yah but your user name is “LanguageIsCool” and you talk about the fun levels of various types of punctuation. You are definitely the outlier here. A cool outlier but an outlier none the less.