“No ChatGPT here—our em dashes are organic.”
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2025
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i once asked chat gpt to write something without em dashes and it was like "Okay--Im on it!" then just used so many of them lol.
Yeah I've seen this quite a lot. You ask an ai to not do something and it'll do it more. And then if you omit the instruction sometimes it will not do it at all. I'm not a programmer so take this with a grain of salt, but why not have a separate part of the algorithm be "if asked for not x, write response and then delete all x." Obviously for more complex things that wouldn't work but for the simpler stuff maybe it would
Negations are hard. It takes kids until they're about five years old to start to understand the concept of not.
That's fair, like I said I'm not a programmer at all so I don't have a say here.