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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/
Not ChatGPT output — I’m just like this.
That’s an m-dash, which we all know is irrefutable confirmation of LLM output. /s
iirc its m-dash as well as constant rule of threes and generally using incredibly formal sentence structures even when the language involved is not formal in any way. Kind of like what I just did there though probably with an extra comma after m-dash.
I think I’m a—LLM now.
There really is an xkcd for everything.
You just have say fuck a lot…
But I’m pretty sure any explanation of Bombadil less than 300 words would fail the Turing test
You can actually get LLMs to swear, sort of. They just won’t use real swear words. If you set up your LLM parameters to use a specific word for an expletive, but it’s not actually an expletive, then you can replace that word with your choice of expletive after the text is generated.
Seeing any em dash in the wild makes me immediately suspicious
There’s always one good litmus test, if you can ask someone live before they have a chance to do a Google search: ask what the alt code is for an em dash.
If they don’t immediately answer 0151, they’re full of shit.
I always just google ‘em dash’ then ctrl+c it.
Or if they start explaining what a compose key is; also human
What if they don’t know the code and just use a keyshift instead?
Throw them into a lake, I guess. If they sink and drown, they’re innocent. If they float, you know they’re full of (buoyant) shit (and can then safely burn them at the stake if you want to).
Ah, welcome back, Witch Test…
meh - I just use a dash and move on.
That’s fine, LLMs use mainly em dashes so there would be no confusion, hence that being the litmus test.
Opt shift hyphen. What’s an alt code? 🍏
Hmmm, I think to know for sure, we’ll have to throw your device into a lake. Apples float, so if it’s a genuine Designed By Apple in California™ computer that supports that option, it won’t sink and then we’ll know you’re telling the truth.
Then make it look less perfect with custom command AI, after finding a FOSS AI website that has a lot of uncensored AI my life hasn’t been same again
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you can keep using pronounciation correctly and writing long paragraphs of words if you lowercase it all, just saying.
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ChatGPT is changing the way we talk
Started the video, and the first comment I saw was along the lines of “so it’s changing scripts that are read, not how people talk”. Had no need to watch any further.
