Comment by Buttons840 8 months ago Use two dashes instead of an actual em dash. ChatGPT, at least, cannot do the same--it just can't. 9 comments Buttons840 Reply Jtsummers 8 months ago It can't use two dashes? Is that like how Data couldn't use contractions (except he did)? Buttons840 8 months ago I've asked it before, "please rewrite that but replace the em dashes with double hyphens", and then it says "sure, here you go", and continues to use em dashes. Ancapistani 8 months ago Were you using the web interface? If so, that’s likely why. It renders output dynamically on the frontend.I bet if you did the same through the API, you’d get the results you want. 1 reply → xeonmc 8 months ago I thought the convention for en-dash is two hyphens straddled between spaces, and three hyphens without spacer for em-dash? JoshTriplett 8 months ago Conventionally, in various tools that take plain text as input, two dashes is an en-dash, and three dashes is an em-dash. chaps 8 months ago As a frequent user of two dashes.. I hate how people now associate it with AI.Also, that "cow-orkers" doesn't look like AI-generated slop at all..? Just scrolling down a bit shows that most of them are three years and older. skeledrew 8 months ago ChatGPT: "Hold my beer..."
Jtsummers 8 months ago It can't use two dashes? Is that like how Data couldn't use contractions (except he did)? Buttons840 8 months ago I've asked it before, "please rewrite that but replace the em dashes with double hyphens", and then it says "sure, here you go", and continues to use em dashes. Ancapistani 8 months ago Were you using the web interface? If so, that’s likely why. It renders output dynamically on the frontend.I bet if you did the same through the API, you’d get the results you want. 1 reply →
Buttons840 8 months ago I've asked it before, "please rewrite that but replace the em dashes with double hyphens", and then it says "sure, here you go", and continues to use em dashes. Ancapistani 8 months ago Were you using the web interface? If so, that’s likely why. It renders output dynamically on the frontend.I bet if you did the same through the API, you’d get the results you want. 1 reply →
Ancapistani 8 months ago Were you using the web interface? If so, that’s likely why. It renders output dynamically on the frontend.I bet if you did the same through the API, you’d get the results you want. 1 reply →
xeonmc 8 months ago I thought the convention for en-dash is two hyphens straddled between spaces, and three hyphens without spacer for em-dash?
JoshTriplett 8 months ago Conventionally, in various tools that take plain text as input, two dashes is an en-dash, and three dashes is an em-dash.
chaps 8 months ago As a frequent user of two dashes.. I hate how people now associate it with AI.Also, that "cow-orkers" doesn't look like AI-generated slop at all..? Just scrolling down a bit shows that most of them are three years and older.
It can't use two dashes? Is that like how Data couldn't use contractions (except he did)?
I've asked it before, "please rewrite that but replace the em dashes with double hyphens", and then it says "sure, here you go", and continues to use em dashes.
Were you using the web interface? If so, that’s likely why. It renders output dynamically on the frontend.
I bet if you did the same through the API, you’d get the results you want.
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I thought the convention for en-dash is two hyphens straddled between spaces, and three hyphens without spacer for em-dash?
Conventionally, in various tools that take plain text as input, two dashes is an en-dash, and three dashes is an em-dash.
As a frequent user of two dashes.. I hate how people now associate it with AI.
Also, that "cow-orkers" doesn't look like AI-generated slop at all..? Just scrolling down a bit shows that most of them are three years and older.
ChatGPT: "Hold my beer..."