Signs of AI Writing on Wikipedia
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The article discusses signs of AI-generated writing on Wikipedia, sparking discussion on the implications and detection of AI content.
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timpera
3 months ago
1 replyThe em-dash might be the single best punctuation mark out there. I wish AI would stop ruining it for everyone.
prayerie
3 months ago
In my opinion the writing style in itself becomes such an obvious tell once you've seen enough LLM output, that analysing dashes becomes pointless
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