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I think this is misinformation, a red herring or stalking horse. It's also a bit anti-intellectual, as if people haven't been using em dashes for forever, long
by mmooss 1y ago
I think this is misinformation, a red herring or stalking horse. It's also a bit anti-intellectual, as if people haven't been using em dashes for forever, long before LLMs existed.
- olalonde 1y agoI'm fairly confident it's true. I just asked ChatGPT to generate a 1000 words comment for HN[0] and it used 15 em dashes. Now scroll through HN comments and count how many em dashes you encounter[1]. You can go multiple pages without encountering a single one. [0] https://chatgpt.com/share/6836f23d-9b58-800b-8cea-0a86a58076cd https://chatgpt.com/share/6836f23d-9b58-800b-8cea-0a86a58076... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments?next=44113996 https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments?next=44113996