Claude loves em-dashes, o3 is a liar
The use of an em dash is a dead giveaway someone used ChatGPT to write for them
This came from my friend to our text group. I’ve seen this opinion start to pop up more online — and for good reason.
Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, I did have a funny experience with the models drooling over em-dashes:
I feedback on a new section of my CV, so I pasted the text to both Claude and o3 asking for opinions. Then, I pasted their answers to one another, and asked “is yours better? Or this other version?”
Humble Claude thought ChatGPT was better… because it used em-dashes:
Now, it just so happened that ChatGPT also fabricated all the numbers on the resume and left it unusable. When I pointed that out, Claude agreed that its version was better.
All I could think of was this scene from American Psycho: