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That fits witj my experiences. And i want to add an otjer layer. In ai times its somtimes even nice to see some typos. You Casn be pretty sure it was not written by ai.
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Wow, this guy must be important.

You can prompt an LLM to add typos, though

interestingly, you can’t do the same thing with queries like “no em dashes”. it’ll agree, then proceed to use them regardless.

could be related to how so-called negative prompts fail to work when asking, say, ChatGPT to generate an image without a crocodile


My theory is that sprinkling emdashes into the output is some intentional measure to "watermark" LLM output.

"sent from my iphone"

Positive (tryhard) signaling: having a well designed email footer with all your contact info

Neutral signaling: no footer at all

-1 signaling: sent from my iPhone

-2 signaling: sent from my Samsung AI Family Hub 4-Door Flex Fridge


I think "Sent from my iPhone" is now less of a status symbol than it is an excuse for short replies / bad grammar.

Status symbol?

I just assumed that was from people who aren't technologically literate enough to remove the default signature. It never occurred to me it might be intentional.


There needs to be a new sig like "Written by Claude" or something. I'd rather somebody just openly admits it.

At least for now, there remain lots of signals that are clear to those with sufficient exposure; from the piece linked in the Oxide LLM doc that was recently discussed here:

"... to anyone who has seen even a modicum of LLM-generated content (a rapidly expanding demographic!), the LLM tells are impossible to ignore. Bluntly, your intellectual fly is open: lots of people notice — but no one is pointing it out."

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/05/your-intellectual-fl...


*Please forgive any typos



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