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by nomilk 174 days ago
tl;dr: The proportion of Reddit comments containing emdashes more than doubled since ChatGPT's release!

From the data: for several years before ChatGPT release, the proportion of Reddit comments containing emdashes was about 0.13-0.17%. For the few years after ChatGPT came out, it's between 0.17% and 0.41%.
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jonatron 174 days ago
Click the % button in the top right
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nomilk 174 days ago
I noticed it shortly after commenting, and completely rewrote my comment accordingly. Excellent research! If you were to do a write-up on how you did this analysis, that would be very interesting (as the number of comments involved is large).
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jonatron 174 days ago
The "dev notes" in the top right links to https://intervolz.com/emdash-observer-writeup/ I downloaded torrents of reddit comments, and processed them in Go, written using AI assistance. Then Intervolz did this thing and wrote it up.
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HardwareLust 174 days ago
Wait, why would people make torrents of reddit comments?
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