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by SideburnsOfDoom 340 days ago
> Some of us actually write like that

The fact that LLMs write like that is proof of that people write like this too, as LLMS produce statistical averages of the input writings.

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It kind of surprises me that they never confuse "it's" and "its" and common mistakes like that, when it seems like most human writers today swap them randomly. I suppose that's thanks to a lot of the text in the training data predating the collapse of English education.

I'm not sure why em dashes are so popular, though. I don't think I've ever seen human writing that had as many em dashes as LLMs use.

I add them where it makes sense, in more of a way to mimic natural conversations.