[dansmith1919]

At some point they told ChatGPT to put emoji's everywhere which is also a dead giveaway on the original report that it's AI. They're the new em dash.

[rasz]

You dont even have to instruct it for emojis, it does it on its own. printf with emoji is an instant red flag

[jcul]

It loves to put emojis in print statements, it's usually a red flag for me that something is written by AI.

[listic]

What was it with em dash?

[Ralfp]

People usually don't type embdash, just use regular dash (minus sign) they have already on the keyboard. ChatGPT uses emdash instead.

[badgersnake]

Some people actually do that on Github too. Absolute psychopaths.

[jsheard]

I think the JS/Node scene was the pioneer in spamming emojis absolutely everywhere, well before AI. Maybe that's where the models picked it up from.

[Timsky]

Here is a damn example: https://gist.github.com/BlueNexus/599962d03a1b52a8d5f595dabd...

[raincole]

It was far before ChatGPT. I remember once on a Show HN post I commented something along the line with "The number of emoji in README makes it very hard for me to take this repo seriously" and my comment got (probably righteously) downvoted to dead.