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Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

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Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

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Post by dawnerd »

rfv6723 wrote: post #66
ks2048 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve wondered why GenAI text has so many emojis, for example in README.md bullet points. I guess their RLHF data had it? On purpose? And various labs all the same? Because if they were just learning from web data (pre- a few years ago), this didn’t seem to be very prevalent.

Emoji and bullet points are easy to read, so it got rewards in RLHF process. You maybe hate this style at first glance. But if you read lots of text everyday, Emoji and bullet points lower the cognitive load.

Emojis when used like these models do, Mae text way harder for me to read. Its distracting and adds nothing to the text.

Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

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Post by tempodox »

whatshisface wrote: post #70
randycupertino wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have some coworkers who use AI in place of the bullets in bulleted lists and I don't hate it. It's fun and eye-catching and brings some novelty to our scientific work. One uses science themed emojis (he's a cardiologist so lots of cardiac hearts, test tubes and DNA emojis) and another uses custom-mojis that she designed after Piet Mondrian's art. I've also seen emojis popping up in official meeting minutes which is…

> Why not spice it up with some whimsy. These leaked documents (pastebin below) might present evidence for a different view. https://paste-bin.org/0bu8f8igkd

That twin tower emoji with a plane rushing into it betrays a sense of humor.

Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

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Post by CJefferson »

jasonsb wrote: post #4
anonlinc77 wrote: post #2

Emoji use was stable from 2020-2024, then spiked in 2025. The authors don't attempt to explain it, but I bet AI is to blame. Anyone who has had to clean up AI comments riddled with stupid emojis from their code will understand this.

> Anyone who has had to clean up AI comments riddled with stupid emojis from their code will understand this. I have no idea what you're talking about. I code daily, with 80/90% of my work AI-assisted, and never had to clean one emoji. As for emojis appearing in EHRs, a more likely explanation is the growing presence of Gen Z professionals in healthcare, who are known for integrating emojis into their communication.…

It must be different AIs.

I grade student work, and I see a lot of Python generated by AI. I don't know exactly which AI, but about a third of the work I see is littered with emojis.

Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

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Post by b00ty4breakfast »

freehorse wrote: post #53
randycupertino wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have some coworkers who use AI in place of the bullets in bulleted lists and I don't hate it. It's fun and eye-catching and brings some novelty to our scientific work. One uses science themed emojis (he's a cardiologist so lots of cardiac hearts, test tubes and DNA emojis) and another uses custom-mojis that she designed after Piet Mondrian's art. I've also seen emojis popping up in official meeting minutes which is…

> brings some novelty to our scientific work Is this satire? I hope it is. Otherwise it seems like a sorry state that science currently is if it needs emojis to bring some novelty into it.

NO FUN IN MY SCIENCE ONLY SERIOUS BUSINESS LIKE GOD INTENDED

Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

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Post by PunchyHamster »

hopelite wrote: post #58
iancmceachern wrote: post #41

I've noticed the same thing for LinkedIn, etc corporate communications. All of a sudden every CEO and marketing leader is packing them in.

Are you saying they are adapting them in a kind of cultural adaptation to the ChatGPT outputs, or are you implying the higher likelihood that they sees simply unquestioningly posting/sending AI outputs?

It's the latter. Soo many "official" company communication is "a clown told the AI clown to generate something about the topic". Not even editing anything, just copy paste

Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

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Post by [deleted] »

whatshisface wrote: post #70
randycupertino wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have some coworkers who use AI in place of the bullets in bulleted lists and I don't hate it. It's fun and eye-catching and brings some novelty to our scientific work. One uses science themed emojis (he's a cardiologist so lots of cardiac hearts, test tubes and DNA emojis) and another uses custom-mojis that she designed after Piet Mondrian's art. I've also seen emojis popping up in official meeting minutes which is…

> Why not spice it up with some whimsy. These leaked documents (pastebin below) might present evidence for a different view. https://paste-bin.org/0bu8f8igkd

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Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

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Post by randycupertino »

whatshisface wrote: post #70
randycupertino wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have some coworkers who use AI in place of the bullets in bulleted lists and I don't hate it. It's fun and eye-catching and brings some novelty to our scientific work. One uses science themed emojis (he's a cardiologist so lots of cardiac hearts, test tubes and DNA emojis) and another uses custom-mojis that she designed after Piet Mondrian's art. I've also seen emojis popping up in official meeting minutes which is…

> Why not spice it up with some whimsy. These leaked documents (pastebin below) might present evidence for a different view. https://paste-bin.org/0bu8f8igkd

Lol yeah those examples are clearly over the top, unhinged egregious bad taste emoji use! But I think strategically deployed occasionally used with some discernment they are fine. :shrug:

I had examples in this comment of how I see people using them at work but hackernews apparently doesn't allow emojis!

Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

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Post by Hamuko »

ks2048 wrote: post #42
anonlinc77 wrote: post #2

Emoji use was stable from 2020-2024, then spiked in 2025. The authors don't attempt to explain it, but I bet AI is to blame. Anyone who has had to clean up AI comments riddled with stupid emojis from their code will understand this.

I’ve wondered why GenAI text has so many emojis, for example in README.md bullet points. I guess their RLHF data had it? On purpose? And various labs all the same? Because if they were just learning from web data (pre- a few years ago), this didn’t seem to be very prevalent.

My guess has been that it's been trained on a copiuous amount of JavaScript projects, which always seem to have emoji up the wazoo everywhere.

Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

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Post by OJFord »

b00ty4breakfast wrote: post #74
freehorse wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> brings some novelty to our scientific work Is this satire? I hope it is. Otherwise it seems like a sorry state that science currently is if it needs emojis to bring some novelty into it.

NO FUN IN MY SCIENCE ONLY SERIOUS BUSINESS LIKE GOD INTENDED

Novelty doesn't mean fun, it could have been a joke because the work of scientific research is literally finding novelty, that which is new, pushing boundaries of knowledge, etc.
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