alt Hacker NewsI'd love to know why their lawyers appear to hate apostrophes so much. The most recent one is:
> OpenAIs mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Many of the older ones skipped some but not all of the apostrophes too.
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longfacehorrace • today at 1:01 AM
Doubt a lawyer actually modified a website.
That's what GPT is for.
Trivial syntax glitches matter when it is math and code.
In law what matters is the meaning of the overall composition, "the big picture", not trivial details a linguist would care about.
Stick to contextualizing the technology side of things. This "zomg no apostrophe" just comes off as cringe.
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I imagine that apostrophes in legal writing are trouble, much like commas. It's too easy to shift or even drop one them by mistake, which can alter the the meaning of the whose sentence/section in unfortunate ways.