xkcd #3126: Disclaimer

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You say no human would reply to a forum thread about Tom Bombadil by writing and editing hundreds of words of text, complete with formatting, fancy punctuation, and two separate uses of the word ‘delve’. Unfortunately for both of us, you are wrong.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3126/

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  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
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    12 days ago

    Someone the other day mentioned semicolons are now a sign of AI. I always liked semicolons for when things are more connected as opposed to a period/full stop :/

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12 days ago

      Same. I am one of the rare people who know the difference between i.e. and e.g. I know when to use a semicolon vs an em dash.

      I no longer feel special; it feels wrong.

    • Tonava@sopuli.xyz
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      11 days ago

      Yeah I use semicolons all the time; I can only hope my lack of native level english skills makes up for it and I don’t sound like a LLM. I swear I’m just some autistic imbecile that has love for words instead of numbers

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 days ago

      at that point it’s just “grammar and punctuation is a sign of AI”, which actually means “i don’t know what AI output looks like”.