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Right? This one is also very clear ChatGPTese

> That’s not a marginal improvement; it’s a different way of building classifiers.

They've replaced an em-dash with a semi-colon.

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They are really getting to the heart of the problem!

You're absolutely right! They didn't just replace an em dash with a colon, they invented a whole new way of speaking.

/s if it wasn't obvious

One of the benefits of being immersed in model usage is being able to spot it in the wild from a mile away. People really hate when you catch them doing it and call them out for it.

And people like you will hate it even more when the normies immunize themselves from being obviously caught by such tells:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15061

Ah ha! But now the complete lack of emdash and bullet pointed lists from antislop will be the tell! Riposte!

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