AI models — specifically Large Language Models (LLMs) which generate text — are pattern-matching word generators. It ge…
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AI models — specifically Large Language Models (LLMs) which generate text — are pattern-matching word generators. It generates text based on patterns seen in its training data, which largely consists of writing samples scraped from across the internet. So if writers love em dashes (and a lot of them do), AI learned to love them too. The missing nuance: A massive amount of the training data consists of formal sources, like books, papers, etc. where em dashes are everywhere. The problem is that…