Post #1889561

Pretty sure humans are perfectly capable of producing organic, naturally generated slop. For instance, corporate writing culture at my company has trained me to liberally sprinkle dashes into my speech—wrongly, I concede, because the person I adopted it from doesn't use them correctly either. I tend to use en-dashes (–) instead of em-dashes (—), put spaces and haven't got an intuitive handle on where to use which of them. On Linux, my keyboard does them on Ctrl+Alt+-, on Windows codes 2013 and 2014 +Alt+X, in markdown/HTML it's \– or mdash and on my phone it's a long press on -. Since the rise of LLMs, however, the character has been associated with machine-writing since people don't normally use it (because it's not as convenient as simply putting a - on most keyboards), which has led to people wrongly classifying my writing as AI slop. I assure you: it isn't. I don't need machines to do my train-of-thought rambling for me or insert artificial mistakes. I just suck naturally.