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bstsbyesterday at 10:25 PM1 replyview on HN

interestingly, you can’t do the same thing with queries like “no em dashes”. it’ll agree, then proceed to use them regardless.

could be related to how so-called negative prompts fail to work when asking, say, ChatGPT to generate an image without a crocodile


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crackiyesterday at 10:55 PM

My theory is that sprinkling emdashes into the output is some intentional measure to "watermark" LLM output.