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Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish (ia.net)

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Popularity ≠ superiority. Proprietary text document formats is yet another proof of Microsoft's crookedness—their subpar products only able to stay afloat by unethical anti-competitive behaviour.

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[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago

Keeping in mind it's an advertorial for their apps...

Not sure what they mean by "weird characters", but chatbots add zero-width Unicode characters as a watermarking mechanism, and LLMs output their own tags to mark different sections.

(the "stochastic parrots" expression is already a contradiction, but whatever)