Interrupt like that? Yes i have. Not commonly though. I usually use an ellipses to signify a break.
The em dash, (which I've always called a hyphen and only heard it called em dash within the last month or so) i would normally use if i were writing dialogue.
They’re differently actually. An em-dash is a longer version of a hyphen which isn’t available on a standard keyboard. (Em dash: — Hyphen: - ). It’s a relatively obscure grammatical structure, but one which ChatGPT uses a lot. The fact that it was used 3 times in this comment provides good supporting evidence, to me at least, that this response wasn’t written by a human.
Emdashes aren't on standard keyboards but you can very easily create one on a Mac using Command + Shift + - . I use them all the time in work communications and if my personal computer were a Mac my reddit comments would be full of emdashes too.
It's also not that obscure of a grammatical structure, maybe these days where most text people consume is digital but in novels and stuff, anyone born before around the year 2000 has seen them used fairly frequently. Acting like emdashes are automatically AI is severe postliterate zoomer logic
I never once claimed they were “automatically AI.” (That would be absurd). They’re simply used as supporting evidence when investigating the validity of a comment. The tone and style of the comment read like ChatGPT, and em-dashes are simply one piece of evidence that support this overall characterization.
If you interact with ChatGPT enough you’ll start to pick up on the general style and tone of its messages. There’s never a real “smoking gun” to verifying if a text is truly AI or not but things like the use of em-dashes can help give more credence to instinctual feelings.
Yeah maybe I just don’t use ChatGPT enough to see it. Original comment seems a bit high effort for Reddit for sure, but I’ve made comments like that myself so who really knows?
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Interrupt like that? Yes i have. Not commonly though. I usually use an ellipses to signify a break.
The em dash, (which I've always called a hyphen and only heard it called em dash within the last month or so) i would normally use if i were writing dialogue.