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Related: Em dash leaderboard https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45071722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45071722

• Someone1234 6mo ago
  Claims Dang is using AI, and that other people are using AI even though most of the flagged post predate popular AI products. Really destroys the whole EM-Dash === AI thing.
  • Retr0id 6mo ago
    That's emphatically not what it claims.
    • Someone1234 6mo ago
      https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderboard.html https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderbo... So if EM-Dash is good proof of AI usage, and people who we can see didn't use AI / or predate AI being popular, are flagged, then that undercuts it by a lot.
      • torben-friis 6mo ago
        >Top 50 users by number of posts containing em dashes (—) before November 30, 2022, when ChatGPT was released
  • dathinab 6mo ago
    > EM-Dash === AI thing which never should have been a thing, because it was obviously wrong yes AIs is more likely to use em-dash, but that is just one, by itself very insufficient, indicator. it's like hip size. In average over the populations they are wider for woman. But the effect is too small to classify the gender of a hip bone by it's size. (Like for a specific age range and ethnicity, the difference in median is like 1" or so, while there is a >10" difference between 5%-percentile and 95%-percentile. Varying by gender in difference and exact distribution.) Well I guess em-dash are more an indication for AI then hip size for gender... lol