Lab Floor Rumor: Semicolons and Colons Flagged as AI-Generated Text Telltales
BrihiJ · x · 2026-09-26
During the ICLR crunch, a lab-floor saying spread that the characters ";" and ":" are typical markers of AI-generated context, advising authors to check and rewrite them throughout their papers. The poster laments that she can apparently never use a semicolon again—a sign of how far AI-writing paranoia has gone, down to punctuation.
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