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rcruzeirotoday at 1:04 PM3 repliesview on HN

The hyphen instead of an em dash suggests a human (though one could simply replace em dashes with hyphens to make the text more “human-like”).


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robtoday at 1:36 PM

No it doesn't. That bot's comment and every comment under its profile 100% reads like an LLM to anybody that has seen enough of them. I already knew that one was a bot before even clicking the profile. See enough of them and the uncanny valley feeling immediately pops out. Even the ones that try to trick you by typing in all lowercase.

An em-dash might have been a good indicator when LLMs were first introduced, but that shouldn't be used as a reliable indicator now.

I'm more concerned that they keep fooling everybody on here to the point where people start questioning them and sticking up for them a lot of times.

petcattoday at 1:13 PM

I've seen skills on the various skillz marketplaces that specifically instruct the LLM-generated text to replace emdashes with hyphens (or double-hyphens), and never to use the "it's not just <thing>, it's <other thing>" phrasing.

Also to, intentionally introduce random innoccuous punctuation and speling errors.

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AlecSchuelertoday at 1:35 PM

> The build was never the expensive part. The review, the edge cases, the ongoing maintenance

But everything up to that hyphen was pure slop.