Not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it's stealing my em dashes too
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Re: Not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it's stealing my em dashes too
#2Yeah, lately I've found myself editing out my em-dashes, because otherwise people may think it's an LLM writing, not me.
Sigh.
Re: Not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it's stealing my em dashes too
#3Yeah, lately I've found myself editing out my em-dashes , because otherwise people may think it's an LLM writing, not me. Sigh.
In Dutch I have the luxury of being able to use the semi-colon in a similar capacity — useful to avoid the em-dash stigma I suppose — but I refuse to relinquish it in English.
Fortunately, I can always just point to evidence of prior use here:
https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderbo...
Re: Not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it's stealing my em dashes too
#4I understand getting triggered by em dashes in a comment section - nobody uses them like that, right? But in an editorial piece? That's where you expect to see them. At least that's what I thought...
Re: Not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it's stealing my em dashes too
#5I understand getting triggered by em dashes in a comment section - nobody uses them like that, right? But in an editorial piece? That's where you expect to see them. At least that's what I thought...
You can check out the HN em dash leaderboard to see that people definitely do use them in comments. (I was pleased to come in at #16.)
Re: Not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it's stealing my em dashes too
#6Yeah, lately I've found myself editing out my em-dashes , because otherwise people may think it's an LLM writing, not me. Sigh.
I started purposefully using the more often in hopes that someone would confuse it as being written by an LLM.
Re: Not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it's stealing my em dashes too
#7One more reason unformatted text is superior -- the double dash doesn't get autocorrected into an em dash.
Re: Not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it's stealing my em dashes too
#8This is exactly the kind of filler article that AI can replace.
Re: Not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it's stealing my em dashes too
#9I don't get the "em dash = AI" thing. MS Word and iOS have been autocorrecting em dashes for years now.
Right? Am I the crazy one?
Re: Not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it's stealing my em dashes too
#10So it is not AI who forces the author to not use em dashes, but AI haters.