| ▲ | arthens 4 days ago | |
I'm skeptical this is the reason: - Chatgpt uses mdashes in basically every answer, while on average humans don't (the average user might not even be aware it exists) - if the preference for em dashes came from the training set, other AIs would show the same bias (gemini and Le chat don't seem to use them at all) | ||
| ▲ | ceejayoz 4 days ago | parent [-] | |
> Chatgpt uses mdashes in basically every answer, while on average humans don't I would not be shocked if an aspect to training is bucketing "this is an example of good writing style" into a specific category. Published books - far more likely to have had an editor sprinkle in fancy stuff - may be weightier for some aspects. My iPhone converts -- to — automatically. So does Google Docs / Gmail (althought I'm not certain if that's on their end or my Mac's auto-correct kicking in). Plenty of them out there. > other AIs would show the same bias Unless they've been trained not to use it, now that a bunch of non-technical people believe "emdash = AI, always". | ||