• alt_xa_23
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    04 days ago

    With default settings, libreoffice will autocorrect hyphens to em dashes in some cases

  • @[email protected]
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    04 days ago

    It’s not proof but it’s a red flag. However, I assume that everyone who uses AI to assist with their writing, such as myself, probably edits them out for this very reason.

  • Diplomjodler
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    04 days ago

    I use em dashes all the time. How dare you call me a robot, filthy meatsack?

  • Cyrus Draegur
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    04 days ago

    if i physically cannot type the punctuation, its presence in my work would have to be the result of something other than me putting it there.

    now, i can’t speak for anyone else’s usage cases, but if there are emdashes then they’re either using a fancy ass word processor that inserts them or they’re using AI and that “or” is too suspect for me to overlook.

    just type like a normal human being maybe?

    • @[email protected]
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      04 days ago

      I have autohotkey set up so that alt and alt+shift hyphen produce en- and em-dash in whatever app I’m typing into, with no fancy ass required. The fact you can’t physically work out how to do that is your problem.

      • Cyrus Draegur
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        04 days ago

        the fact that you felt it necessary to jump through a bunch of bullshit hoops for something nobody required of you is your problem.

        • @[email protected]
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          04 days ago

          The fact that you aspire for writing assistance tools to limit themselves to a 4th grade reading level is a pretty big problem.

    • @[email protected]
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      04 days ago

      Word autocorrects 2 hypens in a row to an em dash, and even in google docs you can set it to autocorrect nearly anything you want into an em dash. There are valid uses for it that normal humans do use. Maybe not in casual conversation, but in journalism, legal work, books, etc. there are reasons someone might choose to use one over structuring their writing another way

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆
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    05 days ago

    This is so stupid. I have my AI server up right now in another tab and setup for creative writing. I currently have these tokens banned: 3221, 265, 28845, 382, 650, 28716, 16913, 1101

    Those tokens correspond to specific word fragments and punctuation. Most are due to some sentence starting patterns I don’t like. I can ban any tokens and the model will not use them. All models have this functionality in the API for any user that actually knows what they are doing at a basic elementary level. Like the tokens for - – — are 28773, 764, and 1040, for my mixtral model.

    • @[email protected]
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      5 days ago

      I was going to say, Mac and iOS make it pretty easy to get to and it looks better than a regular dash in context. Then again, I’m one of the few people that I know that only writes in full punctuation at all times.

      • @[email protected]
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        04 days ago

        They’re also easy to enter with a compose key which should be part of any normal Unix-ish desktop setup.