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[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 101 points 6 days ago

poorly placed em-dash

that's not x, that's y

mic drop final sentence in its own paragraph

I'm not saying it's AI, but I am saying that I hope Sam Altman gets cancer for making me question virtually every string of text I see

[-] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 56 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

As a person who has used em-dash style of writing for decades, because it’s correct and appropriate, I hate that AI has made me seem like a bot

[-] Aeri@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

You're so right, — that's not just annoying, it's a travesty. Someone should follow Sam Altman's recipe for risotto.

Disclaimer I did write that myself as a shit post, if you're wondering. Most keyboards don't actually have an easy way to type an em dash. However my phone keyboard will if you long press the regular dash.

The reason why AI uses em-dashes is because all the journalists and writers used it first.

[-] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 14 points 6 days ago

AI doesn't make you seem like a bot. Honestly, you're a bit mixed up there.

The internet is packed with arrogant idiots who can't actually detect AI written content anywhere close to as well as they have deluded themselves into thinking -- they are the problem in this context.

AI was trained on the content people like you and I have been writing and posting on the internet for decades. It is AI that writes like us and uses our style, not the other way around.

[-] Aeri@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

There are definitely some tells.

I've noticed a pretty severe uptick in not just X, actually Y, clumsy analogies that don't actually make any sense, people using em dashes who don't actually know what they are. Plenty of people are just straight up outsourcing their thinking to this thing.

Before 2022 or whenever I don't think I can recall ever noticing the presence of an em dash.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 14 points 6 days ago

AI was trained on the content people like you and I have been writing and posting on the internet for decades. It is AI that writes like us and uses our style, not the other way around.

Perfect.

[-] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The internet is packed with arrogant idiots who can’t actually detect AI written content anywhere close to as well as they have deluded themselves into thinking – they are the problem in this context.

No the problem is that the internet is packed with AI pig shit slop.

AI was trained on the content people like you and I have been writing and posting on the internet for decades. It is AI that writes like us and uses our style, not the other way around.

Stolen content. And all our writing is now worth so much less now because of AI slop.

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[-] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 15 points 6 days ago

If there's one benefit to the rise of AI slop, it'll be pushing people away from mass social media and back to IRL meetups where you can mostly guarantee you're talking to a real person.

[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago

It might be in your circle but I guarantee you people like my boomer parents (who are still on Twitter by the way) would not notice this at all. They might even respond.

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[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 113 points 6 days ago

As that one retired general said. We need Nuremberg-style trials. Either the democrats enact them, or the US will fall into republican-controlled dark ages.

[-] flandish@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

we’ve been in those dark ages since 1917.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 days ago

We have been in those dark ages since 1492.

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[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

Either the democrats enact them

Good luck. Dems are complicit playing good cop while the Republicans are bad cop in the service of oligarchs.

Primary the corporate Democrats with progressives. If that fails, only then a revolution will truly break the shackles of corrupt oligarchy.

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Dems haven't had more than 48 senators in over 13 years, a SCOTUS majority since 1943 at which point they were a completely different party so basically never. Things are bad now because Dems have not been given the power to stop it, because bad actors are out there spreading lies that they're just as bad.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Because the Dems are not even making themselves look electable to anyone but the corporate donors.

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[-] volore@scribe.disroot.org 58 points 6 days ago

sure would be nice if there were a way to track that accounts' bets and make the same ones.

[-] TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

There's no concrete evidence that those 16 trades were made by the same person; they're just inferring it. There is no account to track, from what I can tell- just anonymous unlinked trades

I think they're also happening on various platforms/markets/exchanges. The oil one referenced here was on a commodity futures exchange.

~~Also OP's title is misleading. The Trump family doesn't own a prediction market, but they do influence Polymarket and Kalshi, and there is a planned "Truth Predict" that's going to be like Polymarket but baked into Truth Social, but that doesn't exist yet~~

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[-] Godric@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago

What insider? Which guy is 16 for 16? What source? I don't disbelieve that could happen, but I can't find anything as specific as this that back that up, and uncritically taking tweets at face value will be the death of us all.

[-] crapwittyname@feddit.uk 12 points 6 days ago

Exactly. Name names or fuck off

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[-] ductTapedWindow@lemmy.zip 20 points 6 days ago

The insider trading has been out of control for a long time, but this shit with Trump and truth social posts is as blatant as can be. Of course absolutely nothing will happen to these people as they now 'have money' and are immune to the "justice" system. I don't think I'll ever see things moving in the right direction in my lifetime.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

They've got a Signal group.

[-] tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 days ago

This is simply what happens when you elect a mob boss as president.

No Trump voter should be surprised.

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

On one hand jfc, on the other, you'd think people would stop betting on world events, killing that line of gambling on Kalshi, when we now have multiple pieces of evidence of manipulation.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

But Pelosi has made millions being the 29th best stock picker in Congress!

https://unusualwhales.com/congress-trading-report-2025

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 29 points 6 days ago

Yes, they both should be in prison.

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[-] Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago

Martha Stewart has entered the chat

[-] tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

America is not a good country.

[-] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 8 points 6 days ago

Never was.

Everything good about this country was because of our counter-culture doing things in spite of this nation.

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[-] orbitz@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

They're on their decadent high or perhaps just over their peak before the real downfall. They could have been better, but that house of cards is collapsing so it's take what you can get before it gets worse. Awesome job Americans, you had one job not to not elect a conman to presidency and you failed twice. Kudos, I doubt many others would fuck up that poorly. Hats off, flamboyant bow they made evident what was thought impossible, bring down the US through stupidity. Bravo.

[-] Fontasia@feddit.nl 7 points 5 days ago

Hey you need a lot of money when he throws you under the bus

[-] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yeah well donald trump jr is an "advisor" for Polymarket so I suppose he's got a lot of things he can win bets on. Not to mention Kushner who's close to both benji and mbs (and djt sr and djt jr). They're all in this scheme together. And the ones who can stop them (GOP senators) aren't stopping them so there's no oversight to whatever corruption they may attempt.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Hey, look at that! A Trump finally figured out how to run a fucking casino!

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago

Are you able to tell what this person is betting at the time of the bet? Or only after?

Cause I would just bet what ever he does if you could know beforehand.

[-] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Is this not a remarkably stupid and easily traceable crime? I want this to be Barron Trump so bad. It would just be great to nip that little psycho in the bud. I'll also take the second dumbest Donald Trump or Eric. Just find out and throw em in jail/get out the pitchforks.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It is when you're not in power, but Gerald Ford and Barack Obama showed you what happens when it comes time for crimes to be punished.

We'll get another fucking speech like: "We're looking forward and not behind." And it'll mean the criminals get to keep their ill-gotten gains and live in peace.

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[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 6 days ago

don JR is on Kalshi's board.

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