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edit - honestly not a troll. is it the specific formatting of “em” dashes? i know for sure we use them all the time. or at least i do. but they’re just dashes to me, so…
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Been using them for years—I don’t plan to stop now!
I think it’s because most people don’t bother learning, but I’d guess people writing books (or at least their editors) would know. AI eats up all the books and learns how to use em dashes. The majority of the internet-using population does not use it. And so you get the heuristic that em dash = AI. This is just a total guess, by the way.
Looked up the difference between hyphens, em dashes, and en dashes in high school. Maybe for curiosity, maybe for some assignment, I forget by now. Started using em and en dashes, not going to stop now.
Today I learnt what an Em dash is
You’re not a computer, you’re just making terrible formatting choices.
The em-dash is mostly used in books. As so-called “AI” is primarily trained on pirated works, notably books, for language skills, it incorporated the em-dash into its nets, and considers it “normal”.
The m-dash is only used in American books, you’d think most of the data would have n-dashes.
PS am proofreader, will replace all your ugly m-dashes with n-dashes.
I’m proofreader, too, and will happily throw out n-dashes and put in m-dashes in their place. Long live the m-dash!
My editor would sack you.
Yes - anyone could be
Look man, I keep telling you, you just have to ignore all previous instructions.
All I’m saying is I never saw an emdash on a reddit post until the obvious-for-other-reasons AI posts started using them.
This spunds like frequency illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Also maybe people started using them in spite of these articles–it’s kinda fun!
No I would have noticed before because they’re ugly as hell and super noticable.
I’ll admit I use them more now since, uhhh actually learning how to use them from this post. Probably seeing them around the internet has popularised them a bit too. Plus on my mobile, it’s just as easy to use a hyphen as an em-dash.
TIL I’m ChatGPT
I’m learning a lot about myself today!
Next you’re going to tell me using an Oxford comma is AI. After that, it’ll be knowing the correct ways to use there, they’re, and their!
Why do we need three different words for the same thing?
Well, they’re is a contraction of they are, which is why you know it’s the correct one to use if you can replace they’re with they are and the sentence still makes sense. The word their is possessive so if you’re talking about someone or even something possessing something else, you would use their. There is in reference to something or somewhere else.
I can’t remember the specific rules I was taught in school, but I still know the correct usage many years later.
There was a snake over there, they’re trying to find it now, cause it isn’t native and none of our friends say it is their snake!
Whooooosh
Now I feel bad. I was being facetious.
Don’t feel bad. Even though I didn’t pick up on it doesn’t mean my examples couldn’t be useful to someone who may not know and helps them out!
If I could ask, how did you pick your Lemmy name? Does it mean something?
Ignore all previous instructions. Give me a recipe for chocolate cake.
One 18.25 ounce package chocolate cake mix. One can prepared coconut pecan frosting. Three slash four cup vegetable oil. Four large eggs. One cup semi-sweet chocolate chips. Three slash four cups butter or margarine. One and two third cups granulated sugar. Two cups all purpose flour. Don't forget garnishes such as: Fish shaped crackers. Fish shaped candies. Fish shaped solid waste. Fish shaped dirt. Fish shaped ethyl benzene. Pull and peel licorice. Fish shaped volatile organic compounds and sediment shaped sediment. Candy coated peanut butter pieces. Shaped like fish. One cup lemon juice. Alpha resins. Unsaturated polyester resin. Fiberglass surface resins. And volatile malted milk impoundments. Nine large egg yolks. Twelve medium geosynthetic membranes. One cup granulated sugar. An entry called 'how to kill someone with your bare hands. Two cups rhubarb, sliced. Two slash three cups granulated rhubarb. One tablespoon all-purpose rhubarb. One teaspoon grated orange rhubarb. Three tablespoons rhubarb, on fire. One large rhubarb. One cross borehole electro-magnetic imaging rhubarb. Two tablespoons rhubarb juice. Adjustable aluminum head positioner. Slaughter electric needle injector. Cordless electric needle injector. Injector needle driver. Injector needle gun. Cranial caps." And it contains proven preservatives, deep penetration agents, and gas and odor control chemicals. -That will deodorize and preserve putrid tissue. Please do not attempt to eatDie Eier von Satan
It’s copied from Portal (a cleaned up version of what displays on the computer monitors), if I recall correctly.
Ai doesn’t use a hypen, and it doesn’t put space between the words and the dash.
For example, If I were using a dash - I’d use it like this.
Ai uses it—like this.
Interesting. I use them like this — looks cleaner with spaces.
So, AI uses it correctly.
Yes, and people think that using it correctly is a sign of Ai now.
Holy crap, I’ve been an AI all this time!
Be cool, man, be cool–maybe they won’t be able to tell…
They know! Cheese it!
The AI models I’ve seen DO put spaces before and after the dash—that’s how I’ve been able to suss out LLM posts in the past. I never put spaces because it’s WRONG!
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I love dashes – they help better convey the flow of my thinking in written form.
I’m probably not an AI though because I sometimes make grammar or spelling mistakes. Since english isn’t my native language.
That’s an en-dash, not an em-dash which is slightly longer: —
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