Comment by captainkrtek

20 hours ago

I’m not arguing that it’s unusual for humans to write in this manner, but when you use something like chatgpt with some frequency and see that as a common response template it’s an obvious pattern..

People say emdashes are a signal that something's from chatgpt also — yet people forget that the cliches or patterns of LLMs are learned from real-world patterns. What is common in something like ChatGPT has a good chance to also be common outside of it, and _lots_ of false positives (and false negatives) are bound to creep up frequently when trying to do any sort of pattern-based "detection" here.

  • I’ve never encountered emdashes in emails from my colleagues before ChatGPT was available, and it’s obvious now where there are emdashes, the content is at least in part AI generated. Same with semicolons. Yes, proper grammar and syntax use semicolons but in most casual business communication those rules are modified for simplicity.