• 4am@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    Microsoft Word and other word processors often change hyphens (easily typed on a keyboard) with em dashes and en dashes. It’s in the AutoCorrect settings.

    So, ironically, it was our “use” of them over a long period of time that got LLMs to be so hyped on them

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      5 hours ago

      I don’t know that LLMs are ingesting all that many word documents; they probably got the em dashes from published books