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Do you know the answer? (feddit.org)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The © gave it away

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's whatever browser or app you're using. It rendered as (c) for me... Bracket, c, bracket

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well, parenthesis, and parenthesis, but yes

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Parentheses can also be called (round) brackets, especially in the UK

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

ah, TIL, thanks

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The em dash is a dead giveaway as well

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I try to use em dashes when I can, but I think they're used wrong in the comment above (IIRC they're not supposed to be surrounded by spaces, but I could be wrong). What tips me off is the unambiguously "LLM" narrative voice and structure ("let's break it down", followed by an ordered list). Not that a human can't type that, but sometimes it seems like ChatGPT is incapable of spitting out words in any other structure.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You’re right, en dashes would have been fine there. Em dashes don’t get spaced—and have specific grammatical uses too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

counter—point ; noone will accuse u of being a Ai if your grammer is shitte in a precise mannor , thou they will gouge ther I:s out when trying to reed it

actually come to think of it, aren't homophones/alternate spellings a pretty good way to avoid AI stuff? since they have absolutely no concept of the sounds words make. though i suppose it'll only work until the models get trained on that data..

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I used to use em dashes all the time and now I find myself rethinking my writing styles because of people like you and it’s obnoxious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

AI has put me off writing lists.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use em dashes all the time, but I don’t put a space on either side—I feel like that’s not the correct way to use one. If it is, I don’t wanna be correct.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I concur with this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Heyo yee em—comrade

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Y'all have got to stop this shit. Real people use real grammar.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Can't tell if serious because entering ( c ) without the spaces is (c) in Firefox and other browsers.

Is it because the other letters don't have brackets? I don't use AI to know if that is a thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

(c) (c)

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