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Found a video guide to spotting posts written by LLMs. Thought it might be useful. (www.youtube.com)

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TL;DR for AI writing warning signs:

Use of the em-dash (—)
Parallel sentence structure (e.g. "It's not just X, it's Y")
Grouping things in threes or at least odd numbers
Delineating line breaks with emojis
Odd/unnatural verbiage
Overuse of filler words (talking like your average LinkedIn post)
Exaggerated and empty praise
Weird analogies and similes
Restating and overclarifying points

TL;DR for signs something was written by a human:

Including anecdotes
Written in the first person
Tangents and nonlinear storytelling

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

Please don't give this any credit. Nonsense like this is already being used to filter web form submissions for things like job applications.

Source: I applied for a role at a medium-sized company a couple weeks ago and was auto-rejected because my cover letter appeared to be AI-generated. I clicked "back", removed an em-dash, and the form was accepted.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, having the same problem, but with social media. I've been using em dashes since the nineties, when I found out a pretty dash is just option-dash on my Mac. Switched almost to full time Linux now, still using em dashes. I tried using only minus signs for a time, but muscle memory is hard to beat.

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