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[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago

Me when I engage in em-dashes, rules of three, and promotional language — it expertly sets off sensitive AI language generation detection methods, cleverly appearing to other users that I'm using a Large Language Model myself.

[-] TheEntity@lemmy.world 113 points 1 day ago

As a person that has been using en-dash and em-dash for years, this is annoying me as hell that they are used as a telltale sign of AI slop. I'm just a typography nerd, not AI!

[-] Foxfire@pawb.social 4 points 15 hours ago

Despite that, let's not let billionaire parasites dictate our voices—I will type as I please. They'll have to pry the em dash from my cold, dead hands.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 18 hours ago

My annoyance is the rule of three.

[-] josefo@leminal.space 24 points 1 day ago
[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 11 points 1 day ago

Yeah, Al's a prick.

[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 71 points 1 day ago

This is ridiculous — No one uses em-dashes anymore

[-] s@piefed.world 106 points 1 day ago

I apologize for my error! I will avoid using em-dashes in the future. Would you like to delve deeper into other tropes of AI writing? As of my most recent update, other tropes of AI writing include the following:

  1. Lists
  2. Surface level falsities
  3. Use of em-dashes
  4. Inability to find sources for information
  5. Repetition
  6. Using em-dashes
  7. Internal contradictions
  8. Uncanny positivity and encouragement

Any of these would be a great trope of A.I. writing — Would you like to discuss any of the listed items?

[-] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago

More than 3 items in the list, literally unbelievable AI

[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago
[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Yes please I love this

[-] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago
[-] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 points 14 hours ago

this could be us

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 11 points 1 day ago

It's short for EnorMous Dash. Not to be confused with the ENormous Dash.

[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Is that Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt kissing? This had to have come out in like 2014 and everyone must have lost their minds

[-] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago
[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

2016

Damn, that was actually my first guess, but I thought the JLaw love had mostly faded by then.

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago

it's all the minus sign to me, I don't get it at all

[-] ZMonster@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

It's a dash the length of M. The smaller one is called en dash.

[-] Patches@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 day ago

A dash that is twice as long as a regular dash.

It's an odd character that doesn't exist on any keyboard but AI uses it everywhere.

The only time you likely encountered it outside AI is in Microsoft Word. Word replaces 2 dashes (-) with an Em—Dash.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 hours ago

Notion does that too

[-] lmorchard@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago

It's just alt-hyphen on Mac. I use it all the time

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 day ago

I had to look this up.. because I hate grammer and never practice it very well...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-to-use

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 19 hours ago

grammer? i barely know her!

[-] DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago
[-] Corelli_III@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago

best meme i seen today by gum

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago
[-] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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