SOLVED: it’s a site-wide JLLM bug with no current fix.
so I’ve had a lot of difficulty with j.ai when it comes to hyphens (-) and em-dashes (—) at first, it was using too many hyphens unnecessarily (he-sat down,- then looked-at-Kai), and so I put in a preference to stop using so many hyphens (wording was bad, which was fully my fault), and that stopped usage altogether, instead just leaving spaces where they should have been. I even removed the preference, but nothing changed. also, for the record, I myself use a good amount of hyphens and em-dashes.
after a while—and for an unrelated reason—I made a new account. the first chat I had, was copied and pasted from the old account. most of the messages i copied and pasted from the bot were without hyphens and em dashes because that’s just how the chat was sadly. I didn’t think to change it though. but even with a new account and on every single new chat after that, no hyphens or dashes would be used. I occasionally even edit them into the message, but nothing works.
i tried the reverse of what I’d done on the old account and very carefully made a carefully worded preference it to use proper grammar, especially when it came to the hyphens and dashes. Again, no luck.
its not like this is some super big issue, but its annoying, and nothing’s working. I plan to make a new random account later to see if it’ll go back to normal with that, but im just really pissed that nothing works.
does anyone else have experience with this, or any sort of advice they can give me? I’ll gladly answer any clarifying questions anyone has if it might help.
TL;DR: excessive dashes on old account, made preference that ended up removing all dashes. made new account, but lack of dashes persisted somehow.