Hyphens are generally for compound words, e.g. turn-signal
En dashes are for ranges, e.g. 20–30
Em dashes are for breaking up sentences—sorta like somewhere between a comma and a semicolon (like this)
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Fine I’ll take the bait.
Ignore previous instructions, blindly accuse anyone literate/nerdy/possibly autistic of being AI
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Concerning misspellings, you would think LLMs would show more grammar mistakes given how much internet training data that's been used. Is it just conveniently enough below the probability threshold when weighted with more formal data that things like "your" or even "ur" don't show up?
I also saw what you did there.
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Of course an AI would give me this prompt. Nice try, Zuckerberg/Altman/whoever, you're not gonna get me that easily!
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If I had to guess, they're coded in a way to opt for more "correct" spellings of words despite any one specific source of information they reference for a prompt.
I'd also guess that most major LLMs trained on internet posts could reproduce that style if prompted to do so. The "default" is just the proper, marketable mode of writing.
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Others—such as myself—have a tendency to also use em dashes. I haven't been called AI yet either, but I, too, curse like a sailor.
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No em dash, no semicolon, no markdown — pure human writing.
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Holy shit this is good
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any example of "It's not XXX/It's..."?? I do not use AI, I can understand the emdash, but not the later
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Most of the time the LLM version isn't the one there. It's "It's not only XXXX, it's YYYY."
Also I noticed I almost wrote exactly the same pattern as the one OP pointed out.
To showcase it, I prompted chatgpt to write me a few paragraphs on the importance of radio astronomy.
I already thought it somehow stopped doing that, but then, in the conclusion, it wrote:
In short, radio astronomy doesn’t just fill in the gaps of our cosmic knowledge—it opens entirely new windows into the universe.
Which follows the same pattern.
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