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"Sometimes the best negotiation isn't about the salary at all" (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by slaacaa@lemmy.world to c/linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 62 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

It's that em-dash at the end that really solidified it for me. Was kinda on the fence most of the way through.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 36 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

My wife is a professional writer and uses em dash a lot, usually as --, including in her casual messages, as it's common for her to use.

It's the formatting style of the whole thing that sounds AI to me. "Honestly" phrases really jumps out at me now, as well as the "But..." fragments. Not that they're bad, hell, I type out things that way too. But for it to be all together, it sounds AI after you've seen it a lot.

The em dash is fine here, emphasizing the final point. Although I would have probably used a comma myself for a post and not a formal manuscript.

Funny thing is, you can get AI to reduce a lot of these tells with a decent system prompt and staging of the writing process. So I'm surprised we're still seeing it a lot and it hasn't been weaned out of the latest versions.

[–] mech@feddit.org 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's really hard to get rid of things caused by systematic bias in the training data.

After inhaling the entire internet, LLMs started being trained on publically available books.
And due to copyright, those were older ones from a time when em-dashes were used more.
The training results were tested by humans, which needed to be cheap, but also English language natives.
So they used workers in English-speaking African countries. Where the English taught in school is also more traditional with a focus on older literature, so the answers coming from the old literature were rated higher by the testers.

[–] stormdelay@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago

"Due to copyright" did they not all illegally download every book they could, copyrighted or not, to train their LLMs?

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