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Comment by sundarurfriend

1 day ago

Because anything that even slightly differs from the standard American phrasing of something must be "LLM generated" these days.

With the em dashes I see you. But at this point idrc so long as it reads well. Everyone uses spell check…

  • I add em dashes to everything I write now, solely to throw people who look for them off. Lots of editors add them automatically when you have two sequential dashes between words — a common occurrence, like that one. And this is is Chrome on iOS doing it automatically.

    Ooh, I used “sequential”, ooh, I used an em dash. ZOMG AI IS COMING FOR US ALL

    • Ya—in fact, globally replaced on iOS (sent from Safari)

      Also for reference: “this shortcut can be toggled using the switch labeled 'Smart Punctuation' in General > Keyboard settings.”

Sometimes I want to write more creatively, but then worry I’ll be accused of being an LLM. So I dumb it down. Remove the colorful language. Conform.

  • Fuck 'em.

    Always write what you want, however you want to write it. If some reader somewhere decides to be judgemental because of — you know — an em dash or an X/Y comparison or a complement or some other thing that they think pins you down as being a bot, then that's entirely their own problem. Not yours.

    They observe the reality that they deserve.