No, virtually nobody used the em dash before AI.
I will not be psyopped.
I will not be psyopped.
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@WandererUber yes and no. you're seeing it now in places it was seldom, if ever, used but there's a reason ai adopted its use in the first place. there are contexts where you do see it, like academic writing, so i assume during rlhf the em dash correlated with being seen as erudite, which is where ai gets the habit.
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@HatkeshiatorTND this was more a reply to some people saying the em-dash is not a reliable indicator of something being AI. I know there were places where you'd see it but I also know that it's out of place where I see it now because they didn't used to have it.
@WandererUber entirely correct assessment. there's places it's barely less than a smoking gun and places where it means nothing.
@HatkeshiatorTND didn't we do this whole rigamarole already? I think I've proven that I can distinguish between those very well
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