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[–] Applejuicy@feddit.nl 184 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] KammicRelief@lemmy.world 79 points 3 days ago (2 children)

haha yeah, I knew it at the "let's break it down:"
I was like.. I know this voice....

[–] josefo@leminal.space 20 points 2 days ago

"Conclusion:" was the final nail in the coffin

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The motivation to do so confuses me. There's no karma to farm here.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why not? Here upvotes do the same as karma in reddit. Absolutely nothing.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago

Eh. On Reddit, karma was intended as an indicator of quality and authenticity. It was heavily flawed and abused by bots and propagandists.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago

It's still providing a correct explanation to people, I guess

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 16 points 3 days ago

Got it right though

[–] judgyweevil@feddit.it 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] br3d@lemmy.world 61 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's whatever browser or app you're using. It rendered as (c) for me... Bracket, c, bracket

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Well, parenthesis, and parenthesis, but yes

[–] cazssiew@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Parentheses can also be called (round) brackets, especially in the UK

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

ah, TIL, thanks

[–] neo2478@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The em dash is a dead giveaway as well

[–] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I try to use em dashes when I can, but I think they're used wrong in the comment above (IIRC they're not supposed to be surrounded by spaces, but I could be wrong). What tips me off is the unambiguously "LLM" narrative voice and structure ("let's break it down", followed by an ordered list). Not that a human can't type that, but sometimes it seems like ChatGPT is incapable of spitting out words in any other structure.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You’re right, en dashes would have been fine there. Em dashes don’t get spaced—and have specific grammatical uses too.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago

counter—point ; noone will accuse u of being a Ai if your grammer is shitte in a precise mannor , thou they will gouge ther I:s out when trying to reed it

actually come to think of it, aren't homophones/alternate spellings a pretty good way to avoid AI stuff? since they have absolutely no concept of the sounds words make. though i suppose it'll only work until the models get trained on that data..

[–] Reyali@lemm.ee 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I used to use em dashes all the time and now I find myself rethinking my writing styles because of people like you and it’s obnoxious.

[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

AI has put me off writing lists.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I use em dashes all the time, but I don’t put a space on either side—I feel like that’s not the correct way to use one. If it is, I don’t wanna be correct.

[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

Heyo yee em—comrade

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

Y'all have got to stop this shit. Real people use real grammar.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Can't tell if serious because entering ( c ) without the spaces is (c) in Firefox and other browsers.

Is it because the other letters don't have brackets? I don't use AI to know if that is a thing.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago