cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34153611
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You say no human would reply to a forum thread about Tom Bombadil by writing and editing hundreds of words of text, complete with formatting, fancy punctuation, and two separate uses of the word 'delve'. Unfortunately for both of us, you are wrong.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3126/
LLMs are likely to use em dashes appropriately and some people argue this indicates the usage of such a tool.
Which is obviously complete BS. I often use em dashes when I'm not on mobile, my keyboard layout typically is German Extended (E1) which makes them (and many other symbols needed for propper typesetting) accessable pretty easily.
Em dashes are not a sign of AI, but a sign of propper typesetting. They can be a tell if somebody didn't use them before and randomly started using them in emails. But if you don't know somebody and their tools or style of writing saying that they used Chat GPT because they used em dashes is completely ridiculous.