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xkcd #3126: Disclaimer

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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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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 84 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Someone the other day mentioned semicolons are now a sign of AI. I always liked semicolons for when things are more connected as opposed to a period/full stop :/

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago

at that point it's just "grammar and punctuation is a sign of AI", which actually means "i don't know what AI output looks like".

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