[jorvi]

Its because of the em dashes (- is a normal dash, — is an em dash). Very few real people use those outside of writing books or longform articles.

There's also some strange wordings like "back-pocket tests."

It's 100% LLM generated.

What is much scarier is that those "quick reply" blurbs on Android/Gmail (and iOS?) will be able to be trained on your entire e-mail and WhatsApp history. That model will have your writing mannerisms and even be a stochastic mimic of your reasoning. So, you won't be able to even realize a model answered you, not a real person. And the initial message the model is responding to might be written by the other person's personal model.

The future of digital interactions might have some sort of cryptographic signing guaranteeing you're talking to a human being, perhaps even with blocked copy-pasting (or well, that part of the text shows up as unverified) and cheat detection.

Going even a layer deeper / more meta: what does it ultimately matter? We humans yearn for connection, but for some reason that connection only feels genuine with another human. Whereas, what is the difference between a human typing a message to you, a human inhabiting a robot body, a model typing a message to you, and a model inhabiting a robot body, if they can all give you unique interactions?

[Davidzheng]

I use em-dashes pretty often--it's a nice way to transition phrases...

[nomadpenguin]

You're using two en dashes to approximate it -- few people have the en dash character on hand.

[brulard]

People that care have it on hand. Option+Shift+dash on mac.

[Freak_NL]

Everyone who uses a compose key has it available (via ---) — I do. You mean the em-dash though, not the en-dash, and Davidzheng is using hyphens for approximation, not en-dashes.

[MattSteelblade]

I'm one of the 17 people that has Alt+0151 memorized

[snet0]

:*:\em::—