@Faraday said in AI Megathread:
Until some article points out that semicolons also occur more often in AI-generated work than in the average (non-professional) writing, and you’re right back where you’ve started.
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RE: AI Megathreadposted in No Escape from Reality
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RE: AI Megathreadposted in No Escape from Reality
@Faraday ok but 88 essays is not a sample size that anyone can take seriously.
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RE: AI Megathreadposted in No Escape from Reality
If your rp isn’t boring and hollow, then it won’t ping as AI even if you use em-dashes for whatever reason. It’s not just the dashes.
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RE: AI Megathreadposted in No Escape from Reality
@Pavel said in AI Megathread:
@somasatori said in AI Megathread:
People have recently assumed that I was using AI (not great for clinical writing) and thus everything is over-parenthized. Over-parenthesesed?
I’ve started using semicolons more in my notes:
Client reported improved sleep this week — though still experiencing early-morning waking when stressed.
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Client reported improved sleep this week; still experiencing early-morning waking when stressed.This is honestly a great idea. I’m really thankful for the suggestion!
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RE: AI Megathreadposted in No Escape from Reality
@Trashcan said in AI Megathread:
What would you consider an acceptable scale?
Honestly? More mediums. Media. Whichever. Essays, academic papers, hell even clinical notes. The kinds of writing that will really easily look like AI to anyone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
But ultimately, it doesn’t even matter if the tool is very nearly perfect. Many people in many settings, even professional ones, won’t run text through a detector, they’ll look at some shitty guide on the internet and declare something to be AI or not. It’s ultimately a human problem, not a detector problem – they’re going to believe what they want to believe and the detection software will be evidence for them either way: “The detector works perfectly without flaws or errors,” when it agrees with them, and “the detector is easily fooled and full of problems and my brain is better” when it disagrees.
Because we’ve still got stupid old people making stupid old people decisions based on metrics from stupid old people times, like the 70s.
@somasatori said in AI Megathread:
People have recently assumed that I was using AI (not great for clinical writing) and thus everything is over-parenthized. Over-parenthesesed?
I’ve started using semicolons more in my notes:
Client reported improved sleep this week — though still experiencing early-morning waking when stressed.
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Client reported improved sleep this week; still experiencing early-morning waking when stressed. -
RE: AI Megathreadposted in No Escape from Reality
@somasatori said in AI Megathread:
I have actually had to unlearn using em dashes because I would do it constantly. I use a lot of parentheses now when previously I would just be like – . People have recently assumed that I was using AI (not great for clinical writing) and thus everything is over-parenthized. Over-parenthesesed?
Parenthosophized. Add it to the style guides now, please and thank you.
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RE: AI Megathreadposted in No Escape from Reality
@Aria said in AI Megathread:
@Pavel said in AI Megathread:
@MisterBoring Either @Roz or @Aria explained… somewhere up in the higher reaches of this thread. I got a cramp trying to scroll that far.
I explained it here. Roz got mad that she didn’t know the dumb reason they’re called en dash and em dash.
it is admittedly a very dumb reason. It sounds like a reason that someone from Long Island would come up with
I have actually had to unlearn using em dashes because I would do it constantly. I use a lot of parentheses now when previously I would just be like – . People have recently assumed that I was using AI (not great for clinical writing) and thus everything is over-parenthized. Over-parenthesesed?
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RE: AI Megathreadposted in No Escape from Reality
@Pavel said in AI Megathread:
@MisterBoring Either @Roz or @Aria explained… somewhere up in the higher reaches of this thread. I got a cramp trying to scroll that far.
I explained it here. Roz got mad that she didn’t know the dumb reason they’re called en dash and em dash.
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RE: AI Megathreadposted in No Escape from Reality
@Pavel said in AI Megathread:
@Aria said in AI Megathread:
You should be–if you know how to use them properly–leaving no spaces between the dash and the word
That is a style guide difference.
ETA: At least it used to be, I haven’t checked recently. But when I was first coming up in the Professional Writing Arena we used some bastardised variant of AP style that required a space between. It also did weird shit with ellipses that I didn’t approve of.
You can use spaces between (I prefer spaces between because ohgodmyeyes), but having a space on one side and not the other like our dumb brand font does is what I was talking about re: stylistic inconsistency. We use a bastardized version of Chicago style where I work that does the no spaces.
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RE: AI Megathreadposted in No Escape from Reality
@MisterBoring Either @Roz or @Aria explained… somewhere up in the higher reaches of this thread. I got a cramp trying to scroll that far.
