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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 johnisgood »

VanTheBrand wrote: post #21
jasonsb wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it is. Let's say that AI adds emojis to my code/text. Me, a millennial who hates emojis, will tell the AI to delete those emojis and never use them again in my code or my official documents. The gen Z guy who got his first job last week will love to keep them.

Most people using LLMs wouldn’t even know you could tell it not to produce emoji. You are thinking about this like a coder not like a doctor.

If you can tell it instructions, and you know you can tell it instructions, then how smart do you have to be to realize that "omit emojis" is an instruction you can use? If what you said is true, I have no hope...

Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

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Post by flexagoon »

randycupertino wrote: post #31
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 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…

> use AI in place of the bullets

Did you mean "use emojis"?

Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

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Post by flexagoon »

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.

Why would it be 2025 though? LLM popularity happened a few years earlier

Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

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Post by NewJazz »

flexagoon wrote: post #62
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…

> use AI in place of the bullets Did you mean "use emojis"?

Or maybe the robot face emoji?

Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

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Post by NewJazz »

flexagoon wrote: post #63
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.

Why would it be 2025 though? LLM popularity happened a few years earlier

Adoption by health companies?

Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

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Post by rfv6723 »

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.

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.

Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

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Post by randycupertino »

flexagoon wrote: post #62
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…

> use AI in place of the bullets Did you mean "use emojis"?

Yes! :)

Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

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Post by shagie »

rvnx wrote: post #50
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.

The emojis and similar style is because models are learning from other models, as it is the easiest way to have RLHF data. Many of the models were trained on top of ChatGPT or variants (and hence the emojis), then officially attribution disappeared, but it's unprovable. This process is called distillation. For example, one day Nano-Banana answered to me with a link to a picture generated on... FAL platform (that did…

> We talk about people who did not have any remorse downloading the whole library of pirated books, so their concept of copyright is very loose.

It may be a TOS violation - but it is not a copyright violation.

In the United States (and several other countries), human creativity as part of authorship is required for something to be copyrightable.

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB10922

https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intell...

Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

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Post by [deleted] »

randycupertino wrote: post #31
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 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…

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Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

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Post by whatshisface »

randycupertino wrote: post #31
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 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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