I mentioned to a coworker the other day that a spreadsheet of “requirements” were sent over by someone, filled with em-dashes. He had no idea why I was so critical of the requirements, because on the surface they sounded legitimate. I pointed out that the guy who submitted them probably had no idea what half of them were, and just went with the plan submitted by AI.
“But how do you know”… my brother, it’s the em-dashes. Nobody fucking used those in emails, spreadsheets, or whatever prior to AI.
It’s such an annoying thing. I never used them in English, but in English they are mostly intonational. In Russian em-dashes are grammatical, you have to use them, in most cases ommiting them is a mistake, in some cases it changes the meaning of the sentence.
People were already telling me that using proper grammar is weird long before slop machines came to be. Now they have an actual reason to be suspicious, I, myself, wouldn’t want to speak with someone who uses LLMs when casually exchanging messages.
Never would I ever think that investing time into learning how to write properly would backfire like this.
Microsoft Word also used to autoreplace them in if I remember correctly, but that’s also a red herring because nobody used Microsoft Word by choice either, and nobody sane is copy-pasting shit out of Microsoft Word into the real internet.
I mentioned to a coworker the other day that a spreadsheet of “requirements” were sent over by someone, filled with em-dashes. He had no idea why I was so critical of the requirements, because on the surface they sounded legitimate. I pointed out that the guy who submitted them probably had no idea what half of them were, and just went with the plan submitted by AI.
“But how do you know”… my brother, it’s the em-dashes. Nobody fucking used those in emails, spreadsheets, or whatever prior to AI.
I did.
I don’t anymore, but I used to. Some of us read books.
It’s such an annoying thing. I never used them in English, but in English they are mostly intonational. In Russian em-dashes are grammatical, you have to use them, in most cases ommiting them is a mistake, in some cases it changes the meaning of the sentence.
People were already telling me that using proper grammar is weird long before slop machines came to be. Now they have an actual reason to be suspicious, I, myself, wouldn’t want to speak with someone who uses LLMs when casually exchanging messages.
Never would I ever think that investing time into learning how to write properly would backfire like this.
Microsoft Word also used to autoreplace them in if I remember correctly, but that’s also a red herring because nobody used Microsoft Word by choice either, and nobody sane is copy-pasting shit out of Microsoft Word into the real internet.