There are a ton of people like that, but the LLM house style also exists because a ton of people write that way too.
The people falsely accused because they've used em-dashes for 20 years aren't the ones that were functionally illiterate before.
The people falsely accused because they've used em-dashes for 20 years aren't the ones that were functionally illiterate before.
Nice try, ChatGPT.
Hence my claim "actual people actually write like that"
With AI, there is no sense of the level of emphasis matching the meaning of the text, or a long-range dramatic arc - everything is a revelation, like somebody who can only speak in TED talks. Everything is extremely earnest, very important, and presented using the same five flashy language hacks.
Everyone keeps saying this, and I keep asking for a link to this type of writing that is dated pre-2022, and I keep getting nothing.
If it was that common, I'd have gotten at least a few examples by now.
Who said anything about em-dashes? There's an entire Wikipedia page documenting the tells, and only one of the 15 or so items is "extended usage of em-dashes".
It's not fluff, it's actual tells.
No nonsense, no BS, just tells.
The key insight is...
Yeah, but you haven't seen me do that :-)
(You also haven't seen anyone on HN recently (since this year) do that either).
(well that and the "it's not just x, it's y!" pattern they seem to love)
That is possibly one of my personal writing weaknesses that lead my own writing to get flagged as AI.
I can admit "it's not just x, it's y" is mediocre writing - but it's also something mediocre writers do - it's how AI learned to do it!
Eh, there are times when it's entirely justifiable and even good.
The problem has more to do with making it a cliche. (Also, sometimes the X-Y pair is just uncanny in one way or another.)