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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] We should have an em dash leaderboard. With a cutoff date of course. | Hacker News
Comments URL: Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT | Hacker News
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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] We should have an em dash leaderboard. With a cutoff date of course. | Hacker News
Comments URL: Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT | Hacker News
Points: 51
# Comments: 43
Continue reading...