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I am just sad that I can no longer use em dashes without people immediately assuming what I wrote was AI. :(
by SunshineTheCat 10mo ago
I am just sad that I can no longer use em dashes without people immediately assuming what I wrote was AI. :(
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- MarkusQ 10mo agoGo ahead, use em—let the haters stew in their own typographically-impoverished purgatory.
- dinkleberg 10mo agoSome will blindly dismiss anything using them as AI generated, but realistically the em-dash is only one sign among many. Way more obvious is the actual style of the writing. I use Claude all of the time and I can instantly tell if a blog post I’m reading was written with Claude. It is so distinctive. People use some of the patterns it uses some of the time. But it uses all of them all of the time.
- Kim_Bruning 10mo agoYou're absolutely right. No wonder you can recognize it so easily. Let me just sit with that. edit 1: The sincerest form of flattery edit 2: To be fair, Claude Opus 4.5 seems to encourage people to be nicer to each other if you let them.