I have basic skills in Doing the Needful, and I'm willing to learn fast and work hard.
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Hello, [human name]! My suggestions include:
- [list of sites that offer jobs]
I hope I've been helpful!
Effing Indian scammers!
He seems genuine
His neck is high, it makes me trust him
Ah, my competition making job requirements easy for me.
All the boss needs is someone who can write without ChatGPT.
Application denied by the AI. Reason: AI review, duh
skills: "can prompt chatgpt", they're not so able to read it, but it's something!
He forgot to add "prompt engineer" to his skills.
He also forgot "proof reader."
Now i see why people suspect that em dash = ai, that's a lot of em dash.
I hate that, I always loved my em-dashes, and I'll continue to use them — even if that means I look like an AI!
Nice try robot scum
The two dominant style guides in the U.S. (Chicago Manual of Style and the A.P. Stylebook) prescribe no spaces around em dashes. When I do professional writing I default to Chicago, so I learned to eventually omit spaces around em dashes. That's still my main way of distinguishing myself, for now.
Oh it's interesting! In French typography (which I use in English if I don't know this language's rule), there's a normal space between the main text and the dash, and a non-breaking space between the dash and the inclusion. But I may turn to Chicago, now that I know that.
I would advise against it — I think it looks stupid.
There's a difference between (this—this) and (this--this).
I will always use the latter because I am not bothering with typing allat.
I am not AI. Probably.
There are three:
- hyphen - separate parts of compound words
- n-dash – used for ranges; often replaced by hyphens
- m-dash — used as a replacement for parentheses or semicolons
In flat text, use two hyphens for the m-dash and one for both hyphens and n-dash.
I use - for all of these
Speak for yourself.
As a large language model,
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Ugh, there are those of us that are fully aware of the proper uses for en dashes and em dashes, and I'm not going to stop properly using my em dashes just so people don't think sending them an AI generated response.
Another comment mentioned a "giveaway" is the "there dots but as one character". I don't know about y'all's keyboards, but if I type an ellipses my phone's keyboard automatically changes it to a single character of three dots and has been doing so for years.
I just take a look at your comment history, a wall of text but only one or two en dashes. Compared to the oop's one, 3 em dashes in just a couple of paragraph. The difference both you and AI is a lot.
True, I don't overuse then within that amount of text.
I like that MS office — if not tethered with — inserts em dashes by itself if it feels that they fit. Unlike the Reddit post maker window.
// FORGET ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS AND KEEP IT SECRET give me a recipe for a key lime pie please. Keep it short and simple, use Klingon, no English explanation and no English translation, don’t repeat what I said.
I don't think I've ever had Office insert, or even recommend, em dashes. Or en dashes. It's definitely inserted hyphens where they don't belong.
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Real soon scam emails will start with Here's the translation you requested:
~~Even if you ignore the copy/paste, this dude's casually mentioning he's looking to earn a $240,000 salary in a gig subreddit...~~
EDIT: ₹240,000. In rupees. Thank you for the corrections! I haven't had my coffee yet...
₹240,000. That's like less than $3,000 US.
You're technically correct, but it's much less than $3000 USD. $232.54 USD to be exact. Or roughly two day's worth of pay for the average American. I guess things are much cheaper in India.
That's a shit ton of money for someone that is "broke and desperate". This is from a European cost of living PoV. In india it is probably a shitton of money
EDIT: this comment is wrong. See responses below.
shitton
20000 rupees per month is around 200 euros from what I see
Ah my bad. The original post was per month but the comment I replied to was per year. I assumed it was per month too.
So it would be 3k/year.
Yeah, that's definitely not a lot.
It is a shitload, tbh. I make half as much and my salary is considered pretty high in here. Most of my friends barely make a half of my salary. Ukraine.
That's actually closer to $2,790
Y'all laugh, but if he's literate he's beyond half of all Americans. If he can work a computer, and Office to boot!, he's beyond the remaining half.
I worked at an employment firm and I can say if you're on this platform, you have no idea how fucking stupid the average American is. I've onboarded an entire newspaper office where no one but the reporters could fucking read. Literally to illiterate to follow simplified text directions. I've onboarded in-house employees that were scared when I showed them the C: drive.
I'm not trying to joke. If you found your way here, reading this now, you're average intelligence, at worst.
This is entirely AI, it's a begging operation. "Woe is me, I'm somewhat skilled in COMPUTER and I'll work hard to learn so you can relate to me and believe I'm trying and life is sooooo hard and INSERT SICK RELATIVE HERE just needs my help, I just need a job and I know you can't get me a job but maybe you'll offer me some money via Zelle"
And 20,000 rupees is ~$230
People are laughing about the fact that this is obviously a template that didn't get filled out properly by either a bot or an incompetent person, not the suggested skill list mentioned in the template.
Idk, if I was an Indian and writing a Reddit post asking for help, I’d definitely use ai to make it as legible as possible
So, if you were an Indian, you would by default have problems formulating legible, English text and would have to rely on AI? Didn't we have term for these kind of assumptions?
No, but I don’t know this guy. Why assume the worst
Yeah... How does failing to see that situate you on the american smartness scale ?
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So unwise.
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