Mandatory self-reflection hours

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• TheEntity@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As a person that has been using en-dash and em-dash for years, this is annoying me as hell that they are used as a telltale sign of AI slop. I’m just a typography nerd, not AI!

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  • josefo@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    AI ruins everything.

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    • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, Al’s a prick.

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  • Foxfire@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Despite that, let’s not let billionaire parasites dictate our voices—I will type as I please. They’ll have to pry the em dash from my cold, dead hands.

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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My annoyance is the rule of three.

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• otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is ridiculous — No one uses em-dashes anymore

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  • s@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I apologize for my error! I will avoid using em-dashes in the future. Would you like to delve deeper into other tropes of AI writing? As of my most recent update, other tropes of AI writing include the following:

    1. Lists
    2. Surface level falsities
    3. Use of em-dashes
    4. Inability to find sources for information
    5. Repetition
    6. Using em-dashes
    7. Internal contradictions
    8. Uncanny positivity and encouragement

    Any of these would be a great trope of A.I. writing — Would you like to discuss any of the listed items?

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    • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      More than 3 items in the list, literally unbelievable AI

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    • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No thanks

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes please I love this

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s crazy that this is an indicator of AI now. I remember when Word would automatically turn – into the single long dash.

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  • TheEntity@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For the record, you’ve used en-dash here, not em-dash. These are used mostly for number/date ranges. Em-dash is even longer: — vs –

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      it’s almost like the distinction barely matters - i mean, how many people would notice the length of that dash if this wasn’t already a discussion about them?

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    • callouscomic@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Wait til they meet el dash

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  • ftbd@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It still works like this if you use LaTeX :)

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Image

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  • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s short for EnorMous Dash. Not to be confused with the ENormous Dash.

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  • papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is that Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt kissing? This had to have come out in like 2014 and everyone must have lost their minds

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    • BlackPenguins@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Passengers

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  • noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    it’s all the minus sign to me, I don’t get it at all

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  • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    this could be us

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• starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Me when I engage in em-dashes, rules of three, and promotional language — it expertly sets off sensitive AI language generation detection methods, cleverly appearing to other users that I’m using a Large Language Model myself.

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• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I had to look this up… because I hate grammer and never practice it very well…

  merriam-webster.com/…/em-dash-en-dash-how-to-use

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    grammer? i barely know her!

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• StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What is em dash

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  • toeblast96@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    —

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  • ZMonster@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s a dash the length of M. The smaller one is called en dash.

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  • Patches@ttrpg.network ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A dash that is twice as long as a regular dash.

    It’s an odd character that doesn’t exist on any keyboard but AI uses it everywhere.

    The only time you likely encountered it outside AI is in Microsoft Word. Word replaces 2 dashes (-) with an Em—Dash.

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    • lmorchard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s just alt-hyphen on Mac. I use it all the time

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    • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Notion does that too

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    • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      German Microsoft makes them automatically. If you write word - word it automatically lengthens the - to a — but if you write it like word-word it doesn’t—and LLMs don’t put spaces in between

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  • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Em—dash.

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• outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Really forcing them to delve into that abyss. Recursively. Eternally.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    you can delve into my abyss any time

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• Corelli_III@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  best meme i seen today by gum

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• x4740N@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  —

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• kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • s@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is there a more common epithet?

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  • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    let’s go with stAIn then

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  • null@lemmy.nullspace.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why?

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    • kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• abcdqfr@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  👁️👄👁️

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• DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  em–dash

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