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gcanyon • yesterday at 5:48 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

A nit, but given that this is from a major corporation, and LLMs are supposed to be em-dash-happy, it's surprising (disappointing?) that the announcement uses:

> audio-like music

That's a hyphen. What's "audio-like music" -- music that is almost sound but not quite? Music made from raw audio? :-)


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istjohn • yesterday at 6:41 PM

Yeah, I think that sentence was supposed to be: Genie 4 is natively multimodal, enabling audio--like music, ambient noises, and interactive dialogue--to be simultaneously generated with the world.

_heimdall • yesterday at 5:50 PM

That's a proper use of a hyphen though, an emdash would be wrong.

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manbash • yesterday at 6:10 PM

> Genie 4 is natively multimodal, enabling audio-like music, ambient noises, and interactive dialogue to be simultaneously generated with the world.

Looks like a hiccup, which created an odd and ambiguous sentence.

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