In r/ChatGPT, readers argue over using em dashes to spot AI-written passages in books, with pushback that punctuation is a weak signal and that structure and lack of opinion are better tells.
Tired of authors using ChatGPT in their books the way i instantly knew this was ai-generated!! look at these em dashes. no human writes like this!
i'm honestly so disappointed in this author. you can tell exactly where she stopped writing and the ai took over because of the em dashes.
My guess is that ChatGPT uses the em dash so much because its been trained on many (older) books where it is much more prevalent than in professionnal or casual communications.
The em dash witch hunt is one of the dumber side effects of the AI panic.
The real tells for AI generated text are structural, not punctional... it is the way every paragraph lands on a neat conclusion, the lack of actual opinion, the relentless both-sidesing.
Tired of authors using ChatGPT in their books the way i instantly knew this was ai-generated!!
look at these em dashes. no human writes like this!
i'm so done with this era of fake authors!!
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