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Like it or not, current LLMs really like em-dashes and so usage of them is quite a lot of bayesian evidence in favor of the author being an LLM. It's unfortunate for the humans who use em-dashes but that's how it is.


perhaps i'll have to try writing them in plaintext form like "---" [^1]

[^1]: proof that i'm not ai lol




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