@kagan @mirabilos @davidrevoy on that note i did look up how to do the curly quotes btw, they're apparently shift+altgr+2 and 5 on nordic boards

@mirabilos @kagan @davidrevoy this nitpicking is besides the point anyway, the point is that there are no actually accurate metrics, and you do more harm than good by trying to witch-hunt the slopsters

they won't care; the people you catch in the crossfire will

and it's better to let a few slopsters exist than it is to harass artists and authors off the internet by accusing them of AI use

@mirabilos @kagan @davidrevoy an em-dash is literally just shift+altgr+m, it's not exactly jumping through hoops

meanwhile i for example have no idea how to type quotation marks other than the ASCII ones, and in fact prefer those anyway

@mirabilos @kagan @davidrevoy the whole thing with AI is that it copies what it has ingested, the reason it uses em-dashes in the way it does is.. because people use em-dashes like that

it doesn't come up with actually unique typing quirks by itself

@mirabilos @kagan @davidrevoy it's still a dubious at best metric, especially since em-dashes can still serve a purpose—such as for emphasis and interjections like here—in text using otherwise regular ASCII characters

and you will, in fact, continue ending up harassing more people who just have particular typing proclivities than the slopsters, who rarely actually give a shit

@kagan @mirabilos @davidrevoy i mean hell the whole reason LLMs use em-dashes and such so much is because they're so damn common in the writing fed to the things as training data, which is like the whole-ass point of OPs comic

@davidrevoy exactly the reason i despise all those youtube videos and such on how to "identify" AI art, every bloody time they just end up driving actual artists off the internet, while the slopsters don't give a damn about their callout posts

same with the em—dash