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Unfortunately that seems to be the norm now – people literally reduce themselves to a copy-paste mechanism.
Just try to challenge and mentor people on not using it because it’s incapable of the job and wasting all our time when the mandate from down high is to use more of it.
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Ahem. https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderbo... As #9 on the leaderboard I feel like I need to defend myself.
I’m guessing this list is defined by Mac users who all got taught em dash somewhere similar or for similar reasons. It is only easy to use on a Mac. But I wonder what is the 2nd common influence of users using it?
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We will quickly evolve a social contract that AI are not allowed to directly contact humans and waste their time with input that was not reviewed by other humans, and any transgression should by swiftly penalized. It's essentially spam, automatically generated content that is profitable in large volume because it offsets the real cost to the victims, by wasting their limited attention span. If you wantme to read your…
I was looking through my work email (my personal email is already too far gone) and realized 90pct of the messages were computer generated. Maybe not AI, but still all automatic process fired messages. I was looking for emails that were deliberately drafted by a human, not even sent only to me. Just messages that a human intentionaly made in the moment. Can't filter them out.
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You do realize English is one of India's two official languages, I hope?
Yea but you can always tell it’s an Indian because they write differently from actual English speakers.
It's kind of depressing to read Daniel's article[1] on this issue given the rising "popularity" of these lazy attempts at cash grabbing. I hope they manage to combat the AI slop in a way that does not involve fighting fire with fire though. [1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-s...
https://hackerone.com/reports/2823554
Where the reporter says, "Sorry didnt mean to waste anyones time Badger, I thought you would be happy about this.".
People using LLMs think they are helping but in reality, they are not.
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You’re absolutely right. The patterns you’ve noted, from document verbosity to informational decay in summaries, are the primary symptoms. Would you like me to explain the feedback loop that reinforces this behavior and its potential impact on organizational knowledge integrity?
“You’re absolutely right!” is becoming my least favorite phrase.
This example is much worse: https://hackerone.com/reports/2298307
This must be _absolutely exhausting_.
And it must be so demoralizing. And because they’re security issues they still have to be investigated.
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I’m guessing this list is defined by Mac users who all got taught em dash somewhere similar or for similar reasons. It is only easy to use on a Mac. But I wonder what is the 2nd common influence of users using it?
Or, you know — iOS. That’s huge marketshare for a keyboard that automatically converts -- to —
As it turns out, the differentiator is the level of literacy.
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And where did you suppose AIs learned this, if not from us? Turns out lots of us use dashes — and semicolons! And the word “the”! — and we’re going to stuff just because others don’t like punctuation.
I'm starting to wonder if there's a real difference between the populations who use em dashes and those who think it's a sign of AI. The former are the ones who write useful stuff online, which the AIs were trained on, and the latter are the consumers who probably never paid attention to typography and only started commenting on dashes after they became a meme on LinkedIn.