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No. The reason why people call it the "AI dash" (technically an em dash) is because it is very rarely used in day-to-day writing. You mostly see it in longform
by jorvi 1y ago
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The reason why people call it the "AI dash" (technically an em dash) is because it is very rarely used in day-to-day writing. You mostly see it in longform things like articles or books.
It's a classic example of "people are good at telling you where the problem is, but wrong about what the problem is". The em dashes are not natural, but they are human. Just the wrong human context.
- ryaniscool 1y agoThis is a marketing pitch not someone's private journal. Overly gushing, effusive, and positive descriptions of products filled with buzzwords. Along with lists of value propositions. Prior to LLM's existing, marketing pitches sounded like they were written by one. So I can't see how you could possibly determine the difference now.
- rpdillon 1y agoThis seems accurate to me. LLMs learned from people.
- Etheryte 1y agoMaybe this is true of English for a native, but many other languages make heavy use of it and I wager that carries over. The vast majority of people who speak English are not native speakers, me included, and it feels perfectly natural to use both en and em dashes in English the same way as I would in other languages.
- woodpanel 1y agodisagree. I use it a lot – unless the OS makes it too cumbersome to type out
- TheNewsIsHere 1y agoI also lament the emdash being used as an AI slop detection proxy. I use it in personal and business communication a lot.
- sshine 1y agoMe too. The Mac auto-replaces “--” so it’s incredibly low effort to use it even in casual contexts.