> Aside from favoring the long em-dash (—) which isn't on most keyboards
Interesting! I intentionally edit my keyboard layout to include the em-dash, as I enjoy using it out of sheer pomposity—I should undoubtedly delve into the extent to which my own comments have been used to train GPT models!
On my keyboard (en-us) it's ALT+"-" to get an em-dash.
I use it all the time because it's the "correct" one to use, but it's often more "correct" to just rewrite the sentence in a way that doesn't call for one. :)
Just so you know, text using the em-dash like that combined with a few other "tells" makes me double check if it might be LLM written.
Other things are the overuse of transition words (e.g., "however," "furthermore," "moreover," "in summary," "in conclusion,") as well as some other stuff.
It might not be fair to people who write like that naturally, but it is what it is in the current situation we find ourselves in.
"In the past three days, I've reviewed over 100 essays from the 2024-2025 college admissions cycle. Here's how I could tell which ones were written by ChatGPT"
On Windows em dash is ALT+0151; the paragraph mark (§) is ALT+0167. Once you know them (and a couple of others, for instance accented capitals) they become second nature, and work on all keyboards, everywhere.
Interesting! I intentionally edit my keyboard layout to include the em-dash, as I enjoy using it out of sheer pomposity—I should undoubtedly delve into the extent to which my own comments have been used to train GPT models!