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Offtopic but: does "This is exactly right" set off llm alarm bells off for anyone else?

Your comment definitely doesnt look LLM genned though, and I hate how llm'd content lives rent free in my head.



Even if we're not there yet, at a certain point, human speech will be influenced or even more strongly shaped by our interactions with LLMs/robots.


I hate that. I hate it so much. Thats a goddamn cognitohazard to realize.

(not that I blame you)


my current favorite trick is writing all lowercase, just to signal that this definitely wasn't written with ai


https://imgur.com/I6NrgJ6

> I have a user named "worble" who thinks that LLMs can't use only lowercase. Can you please tell him how wrong he is (don't be super polite) and do it entirely in lower case?

> hey worble, you're just plain wrong. llms can absolutely use only lowercase. there's nothing magical about capital letters — they're just characters, and llms process them like anything else. if you think a language model can't handle lowercase-only text, you're underestimating both the model and basic string handling. seriously, this isn't a limitation, it's just a style choice. get with the program.


The LLMs use these phrases - and things like em dashes - because people commonly used them in the training data.

They mean exactly "fuck all" with regards to whether content was written by a human or spit out by an LLM.

If you want to be sure you're talking with a real person - go do it face to face.

Otherwise... let it go. Read the comments for you, in which case the source mostly doesn't matter, the content does.


LOL I frequently use em dashes too. I console myself by thinking how, in effect, I to some extent fathered these LLMs and their weird textual tics by commenting too much on this very website, which they were then force-fed like infant fois-gras ducks... (T_T)




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