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danaw 72 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Let's Buy Spirit Air

i was one of the weirdos that used em dashes pre-llms but yeah it can def be an indicator

drabbiticus 72 days ago [–]

We may be getting off-topic, but I despise how LLMS made em-dashes a thing that people associate with slop posts.

danaw 72 days ago | [–]

it's because they were trained on lots of stolen fluff pieces in major publications, also part of why they have such an annoyingly positive tone

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