[Edit: Although I recognise that em dashes are what a lot of people use to identify AI-generated text, that isn't what I was doing here. I hadn't even been considering them, to be perfectly honest.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5xh0ZIEUOE
"At first I thought that this book was going to be like any other programming book; there's going to be some syntax a few examples a list of API's and so on, but as I read this book I realized it was like a Japanese game show - I was cast into this strange world that I didn't understand and I was forced to compete in these games of wit and strength that made no sense."
There were so many contradictions in the article, I was going to point them out. Don't see a point now.
Even when they are not a telltale-sign, folks are afraid of using them now because of AI. I'm not saying em dashes are bad. Our books are littered with them, and that's why LLMs spit them out consistently.
https://medium.com/@brentcsutoras/the-em-dash-dilemma-how-a-...
I was scratching my head pretty much the whole time during the first read.
… means absolutely nothing. I’ve been heavily using them for decades at this point.
The article itself may or may not be AI-generated, but we cannot penalise folks for simply using a stylish bit of punctuation.
I was focusing more on what you called "among other things". The way that the article uses English is extremely characteristic of, say, ChatGPT.
I don't believe this article is largely AI-generated. It reads to me like the work of every marketer who has learned a list of "best practices" and sticks to them rigorously. It's probably also been edited so it aligns with Grammarly's or Hemingway's view of good writing.
Plus, some people seem to think that any polished, professional writing is LLM-ish because that's the style LLMs often imitate (badly).
> It reads to me like typical marketing writing.
hmm maybe that's why it rubbed me the wrong way.
What stands out most to you?