New Discord clone ("Harmony") with a suspiciously AI-looking website, a single contributor, and blistering development = AI. Took me a minute to find it but it looks like they were scrubbed from a few places ~3 weeks ago.

https://github.com/y4my4my4m/harmony/pull/82

$ git clone https://github.com/y4my4my4m/harmony && grep -R "//.*—" harmony | wc -l
17

17 em dashes in comments... yeah that's slop

You're right to push back — this does appear to be AI generated.

🤣

I've been using an em-dash for ages. Now people think I'm either a bot or use an AI to write for me. This is ridiculous.

I think you could use -o instead of regex? not sure :D

$ git clone https://github.com/y4my4my4m/harmony && grep -Ro "—" harmony | wc -l

Wow.

You use em-dashes in code comments? It has its place in regular prose, but a comment is not a novel

gonna make this an alias for shits and giggles lol

Yes the new frontier model from EvilCorp: people2.0

Cinny is amazing

It's alright. As far as Matrix clients go, I like Sable. But Fluxer is on another level, I've really been enjoying it.

Discord alternatived are appearing like fungi and apparently vibe coders notice that, i discovered about 2 new vibe slopped discord alternatives in less than 2 days

Fluxer has a permissive LLM policy, it’s why I chose Stoat over it.

Definetly not in code comments. I mean in general.

It's not the em-dashes, it's the feelings we have about them. Concern, trepidation, confusion. We don't need to stop using them, we need to take a breath. generated by the slopinator 5000

Well Stoat has been in development limbo for the last decade and has no plans for federation.

Em dashes in comments though?

I guess that's a fair point, Matrix is also an option if federation is important.

The regex is to match only em dashes in comments (following a //). If you want to search for all em dashes you can just do that (though there's no need for the -o since grep matches lines and wc -l counts lines).

Thank you for your training data. o7

makes sense, thx for the explanation :)

If someone hasn't already tried that, they will.

And grep -c spares the wc -l

And honestly, you're right to feel that way. Em-dashes are a genuine indicator of AI usage.

Very true

I'm sorry about that -- I'll adjust my responses accordingly.

I hate genAI so much.

So are words. 🤷‍♀️ Em dashes are only well-represented in LLM output because they’re well-represented in the training data. There’s no simple litmus test, the scummy LLM companies would just tweak their models if there was one.

I understand your frustration. It helps me personally to remember that it's not quite GenAI that is the problem—it's the greed that surrounds its implementation/usage. GenAI could have been just a tool, occasionally useful, but our obsession with productivity and the capitalistic goal of replacing workers to get even more profit for the owning class—or in other words just personal greed—is the real problem, not GenAI.

There's a movement to reclaim it, and LLMs will probably use it less and less as time goes on

well corporations are people!

no need for the -o since grep matches lines and wc -l counts lines

grep -o prints each match on a separate line, so the wc -l count will be higher if there are any lines with multiple matches.

It looks like recently they finally sifted through a lot of governance and dev team issues, we now have screenshare and a much better client

Dunno about federation, but people have been self-hosting for a long time

Matrix is a terrible, buggy option, sure. And with Fluxer being similarly open source and federated we may run into similar problems down the road.

terrible, buggy option

Can you elaborate? It’s nowhere near perfect but it works well enough to daily drive in my opinion.