This is ridiculous — No one uses em-dashes anymore
Mandatory self-reflection hours
Submitted 2 months ago by s@piefed.world to [deleted]
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otacon239@lemmy.world 2 months ago
s@piefed.world 2 months 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:
- Lists
- Surface level falsities
- Use of em-dashes
- Inability to find sources for information
- Repetition
- Using em-dashes
- Internal contradictions
- 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?
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
More than 3 items in the list, literally unbelievable AI
otacon239@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No thanks
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yes please I love this
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 months ago
rmuk@feddit.uk 2 months ago
It’s short for EnorMous Dash. Not to be confused with the ENormous Dash.
papalonian@lemmy.world 2 months 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
noxypaws@pawb.social 2 months ago
it’s all the minus sign to me, I don’t get it at all
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2 months ago
this could be us
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
It’s crazy that this is an indicator of AI now. I remember when Word would automatically turn – into the single long dash.
TheEntity@lemmy.world 2 months 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 –
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months 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?
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Wait til they meet el dash
ftbd@feddit.org 2 months ago
It still works like this if you use LaTeX :)
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I had to look this up… because I hate grammer and never practice it very well…
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
grammer? i barely know her!
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
What is em dash
toeblast96@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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ZMonster@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a dash the length of M. The smaller one is called en dash.
Patches@ttrpg.network 2 months 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.
lmorchard@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
It’s just alt-hyphen on Mac. I use it all the time
howrar@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Notion does that too
Nikls94@lemmy.world 2 months 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
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Em—dash.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Really forcing them to delve into that abyss. Recursively. Eternally.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
you can delve into my abyss any time
Corelli_III@midwest.social 2 months ago
best meme i seen today by gum
x4740N@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
[deleted]s@piefed.world 2 months ago
Is there a more common epithet?
shneancy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
let’s go with stAIn then
abcdqfr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
👁️👄👁️
DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
em–dash
TheEntity@lemmy.world 2 months 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!
josefo@leminal.space 2 months ago
AI ruins everything.
rmuk@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Yeah, Al’s a prick.
Foxfire@pawb.social 2 months 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.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 months ago
My annoyance is the rule of three.