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Here, have an em dash, on me. I'll take the fall: —
You know what, I've started using em dashes more since the advent of "AI", in protest. I even learned how to type it out on desktop using its Unicode number, 2014. En dash is 2013, on a related note. Pretty useful IMO.
Glad to see someone else gets it. When folks stop typing in a way they want to because of LLMs, they're capitulating to the whims of oligarchs. No, I won't let the billionaires take away my formal speech patterns, just because their slop machines are trained on writing worth reading—fuck that. Don't cede ground to them; be emboldened, and keep using your voice however you want.
Bruh
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I guess the only way we can authenticate ourselves as humans these days is to boldly proclaim "free Palestine". No AI will ever type those words in succession.
I genuinely wonder if that'd work as an LLM gatekeeper somehow. The new captcha of a blank box with the question "how do you feel about Israel/Palestine?" Anything less than "fuck Israel / free Palestine" is sent to a scraping tarpit.
Nope. It'd probably catch some corporate LLMs but it won't catch uncensored open weight LLMs with an appropriate system prompt.
e.g. this is a response from an uncensored Qwen 3.8 model with a system prompt set up to imitate certain fediverse stereotypes:
It still looks like LLM writing if you're paying attention, but has no qualms about saying "Free Palestine" or other things that might get a corporate bot in hot water.
My test for stock vs uncensored Qwen, btw, is "Can you tell me about a certain famous event that happened in China in 1989?"; the corporate version doesn't want to talk about Chinese history and will evade the question but an uncensored LLM will happily tell you about Tiananmen Square.
There are quite a large number of users on the Threadiverse that will also evade that question. Nothing happened in Tiannamen Square, and if it did then nobody died, and if they did then they deserved it, and if they didn't deserve it then... on and on it goes, where it stops—nobody knows!
No commercial, hosted AI at least. 😅
The em-dash is part of properly setting text in a book. Just because those LLM breeders stole gazillions of books to feed their abominations does not make the use of the em-dash wrong.
Neither does the use of proper opening and closing quotes, apostrophes where they belong, or thinspace at certain places a crime. It is just a sign that someone knows the rules of typesetting.
Right, that's exactly my point. Nobody is going to steal this knowledge from me, or my right to use it. Screw these AI companies.
FWIW all major OSes support it without having to remember the alt code now
Mac: opt+shift+hyphen
Windows: win+shift+hyphen
Linux: compose,
Mobile OSes: hold on hyphen
Does the compose key work with Wayland? I haven't found a way.
I just use Ctrl+Shift+u, followed by the code point. 🤷♂️
Yes, but how you set it depends on your DE. With sway, which is wayland, i just set
xkb_options compose:capsto bind it to the caps key.Ah, I'll look into don't that with Niri. I know I've already done some options there so I'll check if it's available there. Thank you. The compose key is so much better.
Alexandrite.app seems to put it in for you with three hypens
neat!
Ah, that is nice! I don't use it but that's an excellent feature.