Overview

Simon Willison addresses accusations that he uses LLMs to write his blog content. He doesn’t use AI for writing, but notes one quirk: his blog automatically converts regular hyphens to proper em dashes using code from 2015 - predating modern LLMs by years.

Key Points

• Willison doesn’t use LLMs to write his blog content, contrary to some accusations - his writing style remains authentically human
• His blog automatically converts ’ - ’ to proper em dashes (—) using Python code - this typography feature predates ChatGPT by nearly a decade
• The em dash conversion code dates back to at least 2015 when he migrated his blog - demonstrating that good typography practices existed long before AI writing tools