If you're going to use a special font, why not use a font that completely scrambles the alphabet? That would actually be a challenge to AI
Amdash – Human only punctuation mark
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#32It’s a rough time for those of us who have always used en- and em-dashes and who structure documents with bullet points. I’m fortunate that writing comes easily and quickly, but these days probably most people who read my docs assume it’s AI. I can’t bring myself to abandon my beloved em-dashes though.
Happening the same here too. I usually write to the point and regularly number or bullet my key points. I also love to use “–”, Oxford comma, and curl all of my quotes. Now, I’ve to prove that I’m not using AI with my emails.
If AI regularly uses the Oxford Comma, it can't be all bad.
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#33You can't solve the problem of malicious actors by asking them not to act maliciously.
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#34It’s a rough time for those of us who have always used en- and em-dashes and who structure documents with bullet points. I’m fortunate that writing comes easily and quickly, but these days probably most people who read my docs assume it’s AI. I can’t bring myself to abandon my beloved em-dashes though.
That people assume proper use of punctuation and clear writing are signals of AI just tells you about the sorry state of education. And it’s only going downhills from here.
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#35> The am dash, with its pointed unusability by AI, serves as a subtle watermark of presence—a fingerprint smudged on the edge of a sentence.
They missed using the am-dash in this sentence and instead used an —
But this punctuation can only be used by common people when it’s included in other common fonts. Then it will also suffer from AI use over time and someone will invent yad-dash (yet another dash).
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#36If you're going to use a special font, why not use a font that completely scrambles the alphabet? That would actually be a challenge to AI
Interesting point, though perhaps a nightmare for screen readers and accessibility.
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#38It’s a rough time for those of us who have always used en- and em-dashes and who structure documents with bullet points. I’m fortunate that writing comes easily and quickly, but these days probably most people who read my docs assume it’s AI. I can’t bring myself to abandon my beloved em-dashes though.
You can tell I’m not AI because I use the british-style parenthetical separator ` – ` (space en-dash space) instead of the American em dash. It’s subtle, but even the smallest acts of rebellion count.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Happening the same here too. I usually write to the point and regularly number or bullet my key points. I also love to use “–”, Oxford comma, and curl all of my quotes. Now, I’ve to prove that I’m not using AI with my emails.
If AI regularly uses the Oxford Comma, it can't be all bad.
It thinks in Comic Sans, however.
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#40It’s a rough time for those of us who have always used en- and em-dashes and who structure documents with bullet points. I’m fortunate that writing comes easily and quickly, but these days probably most people who read my docs assume it’s AI. I can’t bring myself to abandon my beloved em-dashes though.
You can tell I’m not AI because I use the british-style parenthetical separator ` – ` (space en-dash space) instead of the American em dash. It’s subtle, but even the smallest acts of rebellion count.
Is that a British vs American thing? I had always thought it was a newspaper vs Novel thing.