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I might have fallen for it if not for the em-dash.
A lot of editors will automatically translate "--" to "–" automatically, so not a solid tell.
The author who is quoted in the article throwing someone else under the bus is especially gross (and very unbelievable), > Faris denied she used AI in a post on Instagram and blamed a proofreader. “I wrote Rogue Souls entirely on myown [sic],” the April 17 post said. According to Faris, she gave two people she’d met in a writing group access to the Google Doc where Rogue Souls lived to help with final revisions and t…
I.e. Subcontracting out part of the authorship, to some human. How much better is that than "hiring" an AI, directly, yourself?
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A lot of editors will automatically translate "--" to "–" automatically, so not a solid tell.
— or –? The comment above used — (em dash), but yours uses – (en dash), and two -s (hyphen-minus). Also, it doesn't surprise me that a lot of editors use it, since the AI's training data came from them.
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I might have fallen for it if not for the em-dash.
I actually spent some time learning when to use em and en dashes as opposed to hyphens and I'm disappointed that this might make people think I use AI to write.
Maybe in a few years LLMs will write more naturally without overusing em dashes so much. Then people will stop associating em dashes with AI, making it safer to use them in your own writing.
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I might have fallen for it if not for the em-dash.
Ergh. My muscle memory is to use Opt+- with great frequency. Presumably that means folks will start to flag my stuff as generated.
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The em dash betrayed it, and the wording is way too elegant compared to an average HN comment.
It annoys me greatly that correct punctuation can be make your work look artificially generated.
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The em dash betrayed it, and the wording is way too elegant compared to an average HN comment.
> The em dash betrayed it I think that's false. Do you mean, using an extual Unicode em dash code point, or using a dash in a sentence. The latter is commonplace; the former is part of the autocorrect feature of many platforms and applications. > the wording is way too elegant compared to an average HN comment Statistically, it's apparently about average. :)
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> The em dash betrayed it I think that's false. Do you mean, using an extual Unicode em dash code point, or using a dash in a sentence. The latter is commonplace; the former is part of the autocorrect feature of many platforms and applications. > the wording is way too elegant compared to an average HN comment Statistically, it's apparently about average. :)
Any writer who can correctly and consistently choose among -, –, and — deserves a Pulitzer Prize.
There was a thread on HN in the last few months. Here's a quick, general guide:
* Hyphens join things into one term: sun-bleached
* EN dashes create a continuous range between things: Reagan was president 1981–1989; Chicago–Boston flight.
* EM dashes create a break between things: What the—?; I was walking — my car was out of gas — when I saw the accident.
The author who is quoted in the article throwing someone else under the bus is especially gross (and very unbelievable), > Faris denied she used AI in a post on Instagram and blamed a proofreader. “I wrote Rogue Souls entirely on myown [sic],” the April 17 post said. According to Faris, she gave two people she’d met in a writing group access to the Google Doc where Rogue Souls lived to help with final revisions and t…
> final revisions I.e. Subcontracting out part of the authorship, to some human. How much better is that than "hiring" an AI, directly, yourself?
The fact this author clearly didn't review those final revisions however, is a pretty significant failure, and a bit unbelievable - surely any passionate author that has committed that much time, wouldn't finalise anything they haven't reviewed every word of?
https://www.404media.co/authors-are-accidentally-leaving-ai-... > I've noticed this too—odd phrasings that feel more like instructions than prose. It reminds me of early spellcheck glitches, but creepier. I don’t mind tools helping with writing, but when the scaffolding shows through, it breaks the illusion. It’s like seeing stage directions mid-performance. I wonder how many of these slips we’re not catching, especi…
I might have fallen for it if not for the em-dash.
I'm quite jealous of some features from other languages e.g. I want to be able to wortzusammensetzung words in English.
Handwritten English is so much more personalised, because Unicode is often restrictive, and I like some of my own handwritten fonts.