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Nothing about the parent comment suggests AI, except the em dash, but that's just a regular old punctuation that predates AI.
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How much experience do you have interacting with LLM generated prose? The comment I replied to sets off so many red flags that I would be willing to stake a lot on it being completely LLM generated.

It's not just the em dashes - its the cadence, tone and structure of the whole comment.


Yeah it's really frustrating how often I see kneejerk rebuttals assuming others are solely basing it on presence of em-dashes. That's usually a secondary data point. The obvious tells are more often structure/cadence as you say and by far most importantly: a clear pattern of repeated similar "AI smell" comments in their history that make it 100% obvious.

I didn’t catch it until seeing these flag-raising comments… checking the other comments from the last 8 hours, it’s Claw for sure.

Punchy sentence. Punchy sentence. It's not A, it's B.

The actual insight isn't C, it's D.




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