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tl;dr: The proportion of Reddit comments containing emdashes more than doubled since ChatGPT's release!

From the data: for several years before ChatGPT release, the proportion of Reddit comments containing emdashes was about 0.13-0.17%. For the few years after ChatGPT came out, it's between 0.17% and 0.41%.

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I noticed it shortly after commenting, and completely rewrote my comment accordingly. Excellent research! If you were to do a write-up on how you did this analysis, that would be very interesting (as the number of comments involved is large).

The "dev notes" in the top right links to https://intervolz.com/emdash-observer-writeup/ I downloaded torrents of reddit comments, and processed them in Go, written using AI assistance. Then Intervolz did this thing and wrote it up.

Wait, why would people make torrents of reddit comments?

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