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358 points tkgally | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.217s | source

The use of the em dash (—) now raises suspicions that a text might have been AI-generated. Inspired by a suggestion from dang [1], I created a leaderboard of HN users according to how many of their posts before November 30, 2022—that is, before the release of ChatGPT—contained em dashes. Dang himself comes in number 2—by a very slim margin.

Credit to Claude Code for showing me how to search the HN database through Google BigQuery and for writing the HTML for the leaderboard.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45053933

1. thoughtpeddler ◴[] No.45079945[source]
Someone should make something like this for the wider world outside of just HN. Go through all my publications through gScholar or elsewhere, and scour and parse anything I wrote publicly pre-11/30/22 to establish some kind of proof-of-humanity. Sincerely, an em-dash user who got overtaken by the GenAI wave of the mid-2020s.