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xkcd #3126: Disclaimer

Title text:

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/

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[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

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

[–] apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Seeing any em dash in the wild makes me immediately suspicious

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I loooove using m dashes. They're just so—expressive.

Yeah, I'm 42 yrs old. A long time ago I sacrificed what lvl of English I did know in order to use "lol" - I'm not giving up em dashes.

That’s probably part of the joke

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world -2 points 6 days ago (10 children)

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.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

I always just google 'em dash' then ctrl+c it.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

meh - I just use a dash and move on.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That's fine, LLMs use mainly em dashes so there would be no confusion, hence that being the litmus test.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago

Or if they start explaining what a compose key is; also human

[–] southernbrewer@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Opt shift hyphen. What's an alt code? 🍏

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago

for me it's just altgr+caps followed by tapping - thrice, way better use of the caps lock key. thank u xmodmap

[–] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What if they don't know the code and just use a keyshift instead?

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[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 days ago

I am in this comic and I don't like it.

[–] s@piefed.world 2 points 6 days ago
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