It’s become a mark of LLM-generated text because of its common use in more professional typesetting situations - such as the large amounts of texts used to train LLMs - while being uncommon in everyday use due to less accessible on keyboards.
while being uncommon in everyday use due to less accessible on keyboards.
Most word processing apps and mobile keyboards I’ve used in the last 20 years do a lot of that shit automatically. Like adding another space after a period, turning “–” into “—” and adding a page break after a single press of return.
People (on Linux & MacOS) are fucking lazy. I’ve been using topographically correct quotes, apostrophes and dashes since forever. It takes a minute to learn which key + Opt/AltGr does em/en dashes.
Of course you’re right about Windows, which for some inexplicable reason ships with braindead useless keyboard layouts. I don’t blame its users for not seeking out better keyboard layouts, that’s much more involved than finding the right key combination.
It’s become a mark of LLM-generated text because of its common use in more professional typesetting situations - such as the large amounts of texts used to train LLMs - while being uncommon in everyday use due to less accessible on keyboards.
Most word processing apps and mobile keyboards I’ve used in the last 20 years do a lot of that shit automatically. Like adding another space after a period, turning “–” into “—” and adding a page break after a single press of return.
People (on Linux & MacOS) are fucking lazy. I’ve been using topographically correct quotes, apostrophes and dashes since forever. It takes a minute to learn which key + Opt/AltGr does em/en dashes.
Of course you’re right about Windows, which for some inexplicable reason ships with braindead useless keyboard layouts. I don’t blame its users for not seeking out better keyboard layouts, that’s much more involved than finding the right key combination.