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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 day ago (45 children)

You people think em dashes are proof of AI?

Jesus Christ that’s so fucking sad.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (12 children)

You are vastly underestimating the amount of people who don't use em dashes at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I don’t have a good sense of this since I am a trained writer. Is it really so low that one would reasonably conclude an AI wrote something with them?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's basically unseen outside of professionally written stuff. Most people use commas. But AI like to use them a fair bit, more than the average internet user.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It seems like AI is mostly trained on academic writing then. Very interesting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd say using professional academic notation to break up with someone over text is a bigger red flag than using chatgpt to write it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Haha I mean, I use em dashes all the time in my writing, so it’s not really accurate to say academic (my mistake). But maybe it comes across as stupid.

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