Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent

bbb@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Asking a question and then immediately answering it? That’s AI-speak.

  HA HA HA HA. I UNDERSTOOD THAT REFERENCE. GOOD ONE. 🤖

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• sobchak@programming.dev ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And excessive use of em-dashes, which is the first thing I look for. He does say he uses LLMs a lot.

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  • bbb@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “…” (Unicode U+2026 Horizontal Ellipsis) instead of “…” (three full stops), and using them unnecessarily, is another one I rarely see from humans.

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    • mr_satan@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Am I… AI? I do use ellipses and (what I now see is) en dashes for punctuation. Mainly because they are longer than hyphens and look better in a sentence. Em dash looks too long.

      However, that’s on my phone. On a normal keyboard I use 3 periods and 2 hyphens instead.

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      • Sternhammer@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’ve long been an enthusiast of unpopular punctuation—the ellipsis, the em-dash, the interrobang‽

        The trick to using the em-dash is not to surround it with spaces which tend to break up the text visually. So, this feels good—to me—whereas this — feels unpleasant. I learnt this approach from reading typographer Erik Spiekermann’s book, *Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works.

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    • sqgl@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Edit: Huh. Lemmy automatically changed my three fulls stops to the Unicode character.

      Not on my phone it didn’t. It looks as you intended it.

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