Personally seen this behavior a few times in real life, often with worrying implications. Generously I’d like to believe these people use extruded text as a place to start thinking from, but in practice is seems to me that they tend to use extruded text as a thought-terminating behavior.

IRL, I find it kind of insulting, especially if I’m talking to people who should know better or if they hand me extruded stuff instead of work they were supposed to do.

Online it’s just sort of harmless reply-guy stuff usually.

Many people simply straight-up believe LLMs to be genie like figures as they are advertised and written about in the “tech” rags. That bums me out sort of in the same way really uncritical religiosity bums me out.

HBU?

    • ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      7·
      5 days ago

      I.e. is used to restate for clarification. It doesn’t really relate to the other two, and should not be used when multiple examples are listed or could be listed.

      E.g. and ex. are both used to start a list of examples. They’re largely equivalent, but should not be mixed. If your organization has a style guide consult that to check which to use. If it doesn’t, check the document and/or similar documents to see if one is already in use, and continue to use that. If no prior use of either is found, e.g. is more common.

      • deaddigger@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        5 days ago

        Thanks

        So i.e. would be like “the most useful object in the galaxy i.e. a towel”

        And eg would be like “companies e.g. meta, viatris, ehrmann, edeka” Right?

        • ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          5·
          5 days ago

          Exactly. If you’ve got a head for remembering Latin, i.e. is id est, so you can try swapping “that is” into the sentence to see if it sounds right.

          E.g. is exempli gratia so you can try swapping “for example” in for the same trick.

          If you forget, avoiding the abbreviations is fine in most contexts. That said, I’d be surprised if mixing them up makes any given sentence less clear.