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> why wouldnt you at least stop using the obvious AI-sign, i.e. the long dashes Em-dashes have a long literary history, which is where AI got them from, and th
by JoshTriplett 2mo ago
> why wouldnt you at least stop using the obvious AI-sign, i.e. the long dashes
Em-dashes have a long literary history, which is where AI got them from, and they're genuinely useful in writing. We shouldn't let LLMs ruin that for us in literature. The fact that they've historically been less common in online writing is in part because of deficiencies in input systems, though they're easy enough to type with a compose key or similar, or a typesetting system that interprets `---` as `—`.
- jonesy827 2mo agoRelevant -- https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/em-dashes-are-fucking-amazing https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/em-dashes-are-fuckin...
- vunderba 2mo agoI agree but it feels like a bit of a losing battle at this point, and I can't help but be reminded of the history of the Sanskrit swastika.
- legacynl 2mo agoThat might be true. And for pedantic literary critics and writers, it might be very important to use the proper length dash. For anybody else, the difference between the long dash, the longer dash, or the normal dash, is almost invisible and meaningless. > We shouldn't let LLMs ruin that for us in literature. First off all, this is a blog post, not literature. Second of all, the cat is already out of the bag on that one. People already associate it with LLMs, no blogpost is going to change that.