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[-] TheEntity@lemmy.world 115 points 1 year ago

As a person that has been using en-dash and em-dash for years, this is annoying me as hell that they are used as a telltale sign of AI slop. I'm just a typography nerd, not AI!

[-] josefo@leminal.space 25 points 1 year ago
[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Al's a prick.

[-] Foxfire@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

Despite that, let's not let billionaire parasites dictate our voices—I will type as I please. They'll have to pry the em dash from my cold, dead hands.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 1 year ago

My annoyance is the rule of three.

[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago

This is ridiculous — No one uses em-dashes anymore

[-] s@piefed.world 111 points 1 year ago

I apologize for my error! I will avoid using em-dashes in the future. Would you like to delve deeper into other tropes of AI writing? As of my most recent update, other tropes of AI writing include the following:

  1. Lists
  2. Surface level falsities
  3. Use of em-dashes
  4. Inability to find sources for information
  5. Repetition
  6. Using em-dashes
  7. Internal contradictions
  8. Uncanny positivity and encouragement

Any of these would be a great trope of A.I. writing — Would you like to discuss any of the listed items?

[-] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

More than 3 items in the list, literally unbelievable AI

[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago
[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Yes please I love this

[-] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago
[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago

It's short for EnorMous Dash. Not to be confused with the ENormous Dash.

[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Is that Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt kissing? This had to have come out in like 2014 and everyone must have lost their minds

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

it's all the minus sign to me, I don't get it at all

[-] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 year ago

this could be us

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's crazy that this is an indicator of AI now. I remember when Word would automatically turn -- into the single long dash. Like when you would write something--such as a thought within a thought--like this.

[-] TheEntity@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For the record, you've used en-dash here, not em-dash. These are used mostly for number/date ranges. Em-dash is even longer: — vs – vs -

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

it's almost like the distinction barely matters - i mean, how many people would notice the length of that dash if this wasn't already a discussion about them?

[-] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

Wait til they meet el dash

[-] ftbd@feddit.org 1 points 1 year ago

It still works like this if you use LaTeX :)

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 year ago

I had to look this up.. because I hate grammer and never practice it very well...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-to-use

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

grammer? i barely know her!

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Me when I engage in em-dashes, rules of three, and promotional language — it expertly sets off sensitive AI language generation detection methods, cleverly appearing to other users that I'm using a Large Language Model myself.

[-] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago
[-] ZMonster@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It's a dash the length of M. The smaller one is called en dash.

[-] Patches@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 year ago

A dash that is twice as long as a regular dash.

It's an odd character that doesn't exist on any keyboard but AI uses it everywhere.

The only time you likely encountered it outside AI is in Microsoft Word. Word replaces 2 dashes (-) with an Em—Dash.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Notion does that too

[-] lmorchard@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

It's just alt-hyphen on Mac. I use it all the time

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[-] Nikls94@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

German Microsoft makes them automatically. If you write word - word it automatically lengthens the - to a — but if you write it like word-word it doesn’t—and LLMs don’t put spaces in between

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Corelli_III@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

best meme i seen today by gum

Really forcing them to delve into that abyss. Recursively. Eternally.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

you can delve into my abyss any time

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[-] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

👁️👄👁️

[-] DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago
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