Yes, turns out humans use them too—particularly in the type of serious, professional writing that these models seek to emulate—and have done so before the slopmachines and some of us continue to do so even in an age where this stye we have adopted—whether by necessity of our occupation, by choice for hobbies or simply by spending enough time reading the type of text that uses them profusely—is mindlessly imitated by machines incapable of intuitively deciding which tone is most appropriate for the given occasion—or, really, any incapable of any intuition or semantic distinction.
AI slop may contain em-dashes, but that implication is not reversible—not every em—dash user is an artificial slop generator. My slop is perfectly natural, thank you very much.
Yeah, these maroons with their em dashes
Gurss where the LLMs picked up those dashes?
Human writing.
Yes, turns out humans use them too—particularly in the type of serious, professional writing that these models seek to emulate—and have done so before the slopmachines and some of us continue to do so even in an age where this stye we have adopted—whether by necessity of our occupation, by choice for hobbies or simply by spending enough time reading the type of text that uses them profusely—is mindlessly imitated by machines incapable of intuitively deciding which tone is most appropriate for the given occasion—or, really, any incapable of any intuition or semantic distinction.
AI slop may contain em-dashes, but that implication is not reversible—not every em—dash user is an artificial slop generator. My slop is perfectly natural, thank you very much.