Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025?

• winety@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There are dozens of us that know how to type en- and em-dashes! Dozens I say!

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  • Tagger@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean, I see the point, but chat GPT got it from somewhere. That somewhere being people writing like that.

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    • winety@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think that the use of em-dashes specifically is a result of either the preprocessing of the training data or postprocessing of the generated text. I doubt that the material the models are trained on (i.e. Reddit) contains more em-dashes that hyphens in the position of sentence breaks.

      But it definitely gets the use of dash as sentence break from people writing like that. If you ask ChatGPT in another language, whose users don’t generally use dashes, e.g. Slovak, it won’t use then as much.

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      • Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If I had to guess, I’d say it’s not necessarily baked into the models, but rather part of a style guide in the system prompt

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  • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I didn’t see you at the – convention in Munich last year…

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  • Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its so weird to me that some people don’t even know what the hell an en or em dash is. In Spanish we use them to express dialogue in books so everybody has at least heard of it

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    • JayGray91@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Probably just that. As an ESL, I never encountered or taught about em dash. I would use semicolons they way OP uses those weid longer dashes. Probably the em dash is better / more “proper” way.

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