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I don't think this is AI tbh. Crap like this is where AI learned to talk like that. I've been getting these kind of emails way before LLMs were a thing
Yeah this screams templated email to me. You don't need an AI to sound generic, you can just use a generic template. With the number of emails they send out I seriously doubt they want to spend the money on rejection emails generated by an AI.
Schrodinger's em dash
There's no space between the dash though. AI does em dash like -- this, and the email did it like--this.
That's not an em dash in your comment. In the email it looks to be an em dash.
Here are the three dashes: em dashes (—), en dashes (–) , and hyphens (-)
It's the width that makes the em dash so noticeable in ai content.
I know, but you know what I meant. It's the spaces next to the em dash which scream AI. If there aren't spaces, then it's probably not AI.
i usually put spaces around em dashes because it's slightly more readable. i hate LLMs so much
right, good, that's also for humans to do. But LLMs exclusively do it that way too.
I still think this one is AI, but either way the way this worded feels very patronizing. Just a completely hollow message. Should probably cross post to work reform or something.