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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

but most people, outside of professional writers and linguists, don't use them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Odd, I see them used all the time, and I’m neither. So I guess either my experience is an outlier, everyone I talk to is secretly an LLM, or maybe the meme is pushing an easy conclusion because people in general are bad at picking up on LLM responses and want an easy punctuation mark so they don’t have to think.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I see them used all the time

Weird, i hardly ever see a normal hyphen, let alone an em dash, but of course it's not a foolproof method to detect ai, just a strong indicator