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by vidarh 16 hours ago
Probably not, because now you'll have all of the people who are worried about this ensuring their AI generated text never ever uses em-dashes, and then that will be the new tell.

Or we can just be more concerned with whether something is well written and well presented and accept that sometimes that is going to be AI written text.

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My personal "tell" is that I use -- instead of em-dash. If you get a message from me with an actual "—" character it's almost certainly AI generated.

I guess that's kind of my duress code :)

> Or we can just be more concerned with whether something is well written and well presented and accept that sometimes that is going to be AI written text.

Slop is slop, it doesn’t matter if it was human or LLM written. If a code comment or Slack message is 200 words long but still makes no fucking sense then it’s slop. A message can be 10 words long and riddled with typos but if the message is understandable it’s not slop.