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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
#62I 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?
Even using "big words" gets you mistaken for AI these days, which is especially frustrating when you have a richer vocabulary than average due to growing up reading a lot of books.
My kid is an above average and pretty articulate writer for her age, and I'm just waiting in dread for the first time her school accuses her, with no proof of course, of using AI to write an assignment. We'll have to sit down and dumb it down, make some mistakes, and use smaller words so it passes the school's AI filter. It's 100% going to happen, I've never been so certain about anything.
Re: Not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it's stealing my em dashes too
#63Where did people in this thread learn to use em dashes? I feel like my English teachers failed me.
Re: Not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it's stealing my em dashes too
#64Your em dashes never added any extra information to 99.999% of readers. No one cares and neither should you.
Re: Not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it's stealing my em dashes too
#65i have started to reclaim my em dashes by adding spaces around them. if you notice most AI text tacks them on right next to the sentence fragment.
add surrounding spaces to the dash !
it's grammatically correct (but typically uncommon). visually looks more balanced to boot!
Re: Not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it's stealing my em dashes too
#66Re: Not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it's stealing my em dashes too
#67This em dash thing has become a meme of sorts, and a pain for anyone who actually writes for a living and/or uses iOS/macOS and it’s automatic formatting.