Comment on 16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now

• saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah, same. Long-time user of an em-dash—love a cheeky en-dash in my ranges too. But now LLMs are using them all the time, out of context, and with spaces on either side.

  Is nothing safe?! Next it’ll be semicolons!

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah, what’s with the spaces? I’ve been an emdash slut for 20 years, but I’ve never put spaces on either side. I’ve also scarcely seen anyone else do that, until LLMs became popular.

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• sj_zero ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think you'd probably be ok with using em-dashes (I typically use en-dashes myself but I'm lazy), but don't use cliche phrases like "It's not [x] -- it's [reframed x]"
• TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s probably your fault, you loved em dashes too much that AI started using them after stealing all your content

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  • sj_zero ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was going to say "I don't use em-dashes in my books for when they sole all those books" but then I went into my first book and found 22 em-dashes so... oops. I thought the word processor changed -- into an en-dash and not an em-dash.