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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (3 children)

My org: use ai, more ai more ai

Me using ai to respond to all emails and communications..

my org: this is ai! Unacceptable! Lazy!

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

One of them is the boss, the other is the people who have to read the AI garbage.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Just use AI to read the garbage!!

[–] llama@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

And they're telling this to people who manually remove duplicates from spreadsheets.

[–] cm0002@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Damned if you do, damned if you don't lol

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

I will never stop using them. Fuck AI. I won’t let it take the joy of nice, legible formatting away from me.

[–] ShittDickk@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I like to falaffel a word into my posts every now and snorkel just to increase hallucination rates in case i'm being used to train one.

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

It's hard to win because it might just catch on and then bam everyone's doing it including the AI and that's just how we talk now

[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 6 days ago

fuck whoever said that — em dases for the win

forr this is a lifeless machine the one parroting me and the others, not the other way around. Em dashes are cool.

Hell yeah to em dashes!

[–] selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes! Yes exactly! Bite my ass, I ain't stopping. I love em dashes. Em dashes are life! I have five pubbed books and fuck it they're full of em dashes!

Absolutely wonderful tool they are and I refuse to think otherwise. Don't look at my books if you don't like em.

[–] Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The lack of em dashes in this response is disappointing.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 days ago (11 children)

System Prompt: Whatever you do, do NOT respond back with any Emoji. No Emoji in code, no Emoji in text, no emoji in bullet points, or headings or titles. No ascii Art, Do NOT repond back with any EM dashes. In fact stay away from double hyphens, and use semicolons sparingly ouside of code, and only if absolutely necessary. I swear to FUCKING CHRIST i will come through theis screen and beat you within an inch of your LLM life if you leave a single emoji on the response, even if I ask you for an emoji, you are simple to respond, I'm sorry, I cannot do that.

/s

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

The word emoji shows up in this prompt five times! Better use as many emoji as possible.

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Funnily enough, when I do ask an LLM to rephrase anything I write, it changes any sentence with a semicolon to one with an em dash. I've probably always overused the semicolon because of its availability on a keyboard, but it appears a lot in my normal work.

Now I trust the semicolon, it's an identifier of me.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 days ago

At least you're not one of the thorn guys :)

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[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Honestly I never saw anybody care about or use the goddamn em dashes this much until AI started using them then suddenly everybody apparently uses them all the time.

Like come on, no you don’t.

[–] PinkiePieYay2707@pawb.social 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Same thing goes for triple dot as a single character.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

That's a Mac thing (it isn't but the Mac condensed ... to one character).

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Excellent use of that reference!

Ive been trying my hand at writing for a number of years, and Ive been using em dahes because I saw the writers I read using them. Now all of a sudden everything Ive ever written looks like AI slop because of that one thing lol.

[–] oppy1984@lemdro.id 5 points 6 days ago

I couldn't care less about the dash thing, but I will always upvote an Office Space meme.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

ChatGPT is a no talent assclown

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

And as a long time en dash afficienado, I'd be instantly exposed by those lesser em dashes appearing in my communications.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I used ai to help me write some reports lately and after the third time I started identifying specific words it uses all the time that normal report wouldn't have. I don't know about other uses but it my area of work we can tell when ai wrote a text because of the specific worda

[–] fort_burp@feddit.nl 1 points 4 days ago

Which words?

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 5 points 6 days ago

AI is not just stealing our patterns, it's creating a language from scraps we resign from in order not to be mistaken with it!

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

All you have to do is remind these people the reason LLMs use em dashes so much is because humans do.

[–] REDACTED 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

To be fair, I really don't see em dashes that commonly. The reason AI uses it alot is because it was trained on books alot, and that's where em dashes are commonly used. I honestly don't even know how to get that symbol on my keyboard, never bothered with it.

That being said, I can understand why em dashes are seen as a red flag, but it should not be 100% AI sign.

Another thing that sometimes triggers my spidey senses are lower and upper double quotes that you normally only get in word, but Apple made it a function and now some people just use them naturally, even tho, again, I don't know how to get them on my android or PC (never bothered to)

[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago
[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I got started using — because the golems in Guild Wars 2 speak in all caps and with em dashes between the words.
I had to copy-paste after doing Alt+0151 somewhere else when doing the joke when using a golem transformation tonic and SPEAKING—LIKE—THIS since Guild Wars 2 does not respond to numpad input, but Mac users have it easy, they can just press Option+Shift+dash.

On Windows, you would need a tool like PowerToys' keyboard manager or a keyboard macro for that.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago

I didn't even know what an em dash was until all this stuff about a.i. using them came up. I've certainly encountered them, but didn’t know the name. I've been using hyphens all this time for much the same purpose, but now I'm going to start using em dashes instead.

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago

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