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Re:Sycophancy in GPT-4o by throwaway2037 on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @01:20PM (#43848233)
Fair point! I am talking about when people receive Outlook emails or Word docs that contain em-dashes, then assume it came from ChatGPT. You are right: If you are typing "plain text in a box" on the Reddit website, the incidence of em-dashes should be incredibly low, unless the sub-Reddit is something about English grammar.

Follow-up question: Do any mobile phone IMEs (input method editors) auto-magically convert double dashes into em-dashes? If yes, then that might be a non-ChatGPT source of em-dashes.

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Re:Sycophancy in GPT-4o by nl on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @09:10PM (#43852612)
On Macs double dash will be converted to an em-dash (in some apps?) unless you untick "use smart quotes and dashes". See https://superuser.com/questions/555628/how-to-stop-mac-to-co...

I'm on Firefox and it doesn't seem to affect me, but I'm pretty sure I've seen it in Safari.

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